Painting Flanders abroad : Flemish art and artists in seventeenth-century Madrid

Author(s)

• Newman, Abigail D.

Bibliographic Information

Painting Flanders abroad : Flemish art and artists in seventeenth-century Madrid

by Abigail D. Newman

（Studies in Netherlandish art and cultural history, v. 17）

Brill, c2022

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In Painting Flanders Abroad: Flemish Art and Artists in Seventeenth-Century Madrid, Flemish immigrants and imported Flemish paintings cross the paths of Spanish kings, collectors, dealers, and artists in the Spanish court city, transforming the development and nature of seventeenth-century Spanish painting. Examining these Flemish transplants and the traces their interactions left in archival documents, collection inventories, art treatises, and most saliently Spanish "Golden Age" paintings, this book portrays Spanish society grappling with a long tradition of importing its favorite paintings while struggling to reimagine its own visual idiom. In the process, the book historicizes questions of style, quality, immigration, mobility, identity, and cultural exchange to define what the evolving and amorphous visual concept of "Flemishness" meant to Spanish viewers in an era long before the emergence of nationalism.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction: A Centuries-Long Relationship Spain and Flanders Sixteenth-Century Appreciation for Flemish Specialties: Portraits, Still Lifes, and Landscapes A Note about Flemishness 1 Flemish Immigrant Painters in Madrid: A Portrait Flemish Immigrants and the Choice of Madrid Flemish Cultural Identity in Madrid: The Role of the Noble Guardia Flemish Portraiture in Spain "Portraits" of Flemish Immigrant Painters 2 Food and Flowers: The Visual Seductions of Flemishness Flemish Motifs and a Distinctive Compositional Balance Flemish vs. Spanish Still Lifes Cocinas and Bodegones Arrive in Spain Appeal and Danger of the Flemish Balance Madrid Modifications Flemish Flowers 3 Pai ses flamencos: Picturing Flemish Distance Distance and Distant Places Imagining Travel by Land Painters, Paintings, and Viewers Travel by Sea Paises flamencos and Their Distant Echoes Coda: Rubens and the End of "Flemish" Art in Spain Rubens's Flemishness Rubens's Figural Focus and Its Dissemination Absorbing Rubens in Spain Notes Bibliography Archives, Archival Guides, Unpublished Manuscripts, and a Database Published Sources Photo Credits Index

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Details

• NCID: BC16917249
• ISBN:
  • 9789004426290
• LCCN: 2022003094
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden ; Boston
• Pages/Volumes: xxii, 325 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : ND669.F5
  • DC23 : 759.9493/094641
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Painting, Flemish -- Spain -- Madrid -- 17th century
  • LCSH : Painting, Flemish -- Influence
  • LCSH : Painting, Spanish -- 17th century
  • LCSH : Art and society -- Spain -- History -- 17th century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA40393423