Invisible hands? : the role and status of the painter's journeyman in the Low Countries c. 1450 - c. 1650 / edited by Natasja Peeters.

Format:

Book

Series:

Groningen studies in cultural change ; v. 23.

Groningen studies in cultural change ; v. 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painters--Netherlands--Social conditions--History.

Painters.

Painters--Belgium--Social conditions--History.

Artists' studios--Netherlands--History.

Artists' studios.

Artists' studios--Belgium--History.

Journey workers--Netherlands--Social conditions--History.

Journey workers.

Journey workers--Belgium--Social conditions--History.

Social conditions.

History.

Belgium.

Netherlands.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 173 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leuven : Peeters, 2007.

Summary:

The topic of the workshop entitled `Role and status of journeymen in artists' and craftsmen's workshops in the Low Countries c. 1450-c. 1650', held in Groningen, 23-24 May 2003, grew out of archival and material-technical research on workshop practices. As a result of this research it gradually became clear that more knowledge about the social and economic mechanisms of art production was required in order to study the painters' workshop. Such research frequently moves in two or more directions, and in this case the workshop proceeded on the basis of two questions: how can socially and economically oriented historical research help art historians, and what can art historical, and material and technical research add to corporate history of the painter's guild?

Geographically, the case studies in this volume deal with southern Netherlandish towns, in particular Antwerp, Brussels, Mechelen, Ghent and Bruges. One essay focuses on the Dutch Republic. Chronologically, the contributions treat the late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period (c. 1450 and c. 1650). From an artistic point of view, this era can be characterized as the long `Golden Age' of Flemish painting. The epoch witnessed the apogee of the art of the Flemish Primitives and the rise of the successful genre of Antwerp Mannerism. It also witnessed the start of the influence of the Italian Renaissance on Flemish art, the rise of Antwerp over the course of the sixteenth century as the vanguard of new genres which were exported all over the world, and the international triumph of the Flemish Baroque after 1610.

Contents:

Artists, Artisans, Workshop Practices and Assistants in the Low Countries (fifteenth to seventeenth centuries) / Harald Deceulaer, Ann Diels 1

Assistants in Artists' Workshops in the Southern Netherlands (fifteenth and sixteenth centuries). Overview of the Archive Sources, with the collaboration of Max Martens / Natasja Peeters 33

Painters' Workshops and Assistants in Netherlandish Imagery (mid-fifteenth to early seventeenth century) / Natasja Peeters 51

Joos van Cleve and his Assistants. Questions of Identity by `Faults or Virtues' (Fehlern oder Tugenden)? / Micha Leeflang 67

Considerations on the Size of Pieter Coecke's Workshop. Apprentices, Family and Journeymen. A Contribution to the Study of Journeymen on Micro Level / Linda Jansen 83

Journeymen, Social Rise and the Urban Labour Market in the Southern Netherlands during the Transition from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period / Johan Dambruyne 105

Paintings, Journeyman Painters and Painters' Guilds during the Dutch Golden Age / Maarten Prak 133.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-170) and index.

ISBN:

9789042919372

904291937X

OCLC:

192081360