Author: KOENRAAD JONCKHEERE
Title: Willem Key 1516-1568. Portrait of a Humanist Painter
Description: Brepols Pub, 2011. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 345. Willem Key was one of the leading portrait and history painters in sixteenth-century Antwerp. He was born in Breda in 1516. Following in his older brother Wouter's footsteps, Willem went to Antwerp to become a painter. He studied under Pieter Coecke (1529) and later, like Frans Floris, apprenticed in the workshop of Lambert Lombard in Liège before becoming a free master in 1542. In 1568, just when he had reached the top of his abilities and enjoyed the patronage of outstanding individuals and institutions, Willem Key died suddenly. The artist's biographer and painter Karel van Mander tells us that Key was blessed with 'Sulcke edele gheesten,' such a noble mind. And, he had a 'Docta manus,' a learned hand, as the Bruges humanist and painter Domenicus Lampsonius phrased this topos in 1572. This is the first monograph to place Willem Key and his oeuvre in a historical framework. It demonstrates why the nobility, including the Duke of Alba and Cardinal Granvelle, considered him the best portrait painter of his day and why leading humanists viewed his many history paintings as eloquent visualizations of contemporary art theory. ISBN: 9782503536781. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9782503536781
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Title: Willem Key 1516-1568. Portrait of a Humanist Painter
Description: Brepols Pub, 2011. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 345. Willem Key was one of the leading portrait and history painters in sixteenth-century Antwerp. He was born in Breda in 1516. Following in his older brother Wouter's footsteps, Willem went to Antwerp to become a painter. He studied under Pieter Coecke (1529) and later, like Frans Floris, apprenticed in the workshop of Lambert Lombard in Liège before becoming a free master in 1542. In 1568, just when he had reached the top of his abilities and enjoyed the patronage of outstanding individuals and institutions, Willem Key died suddenly. The artist's biographer and painter Karel van Mander tells us that Key was blessed with 'Sulcke edele gheesten,' such a noble mind. And, he had a 'Docta manus,' a learned hand, as the Bruges humanist and painter Domenicus Lampsonius phrased this topos in 1572. This is the first monograph to place Willem Key and his oeuvre in a historical framework. It demonstrates why the nobility, including the Duke of Alba and Cardinal Granvelle, considered him the best portrait painter of his day and why leading humanists viewed his many history paintings as eloquent visualizations of contemporary art theory. ISBN: 9782503536781. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9782503536781
Price: EUR 125.00 = appr. US$ 135.86 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 2027937
- Book number: 2027937
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