Cambridge and the study of Netherlandish art : the Low Countries and the Fens / edited by Meredith McNeill Hale.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hale, Meredith McNeill, editor.

Series:

Museums at the Crossroads ; 29

[Museums at the Crossroads ; 29]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts, Dutch--History.

Arts, Dutch.

Arts--Netherlands--History.

Arts.

Art, Dutch--Collectors and collecting--England--Cambridge.

Art, Dutch.

Art, Dutch--Collectors and collecting.

History.

England--Cambridge.

Netherlands.

Physical Description:

223 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2016]

Summary:

Nine essays explore the study and collecting of Netherlandish art in Cambridge. The Speelman Fellowship in Netherlandish Art at Wolfson College, Cambridge, celebrated its fortieth anniversary in 2011. Holders of the Fellowship have included such world-renowned scholars as Dr Lorne Campbell of the National Gallery, London, Professor Joanna Woodall of the Courtauld Institute of Art, and Professor Ivan Gaskell of the Bard Institute in New York. They have all contributed to the present volume, which presents new research by no fewer than seven Speelman Fellows and is edited by the post's present incumbent. Edward Speelman's endowment of the Fellowship in 1971 has crucially supplemented Cambridge's tradition of distinguished scholarship in the field. It also complements the important holdings of Dutch and Flemish works in the Fitzwilliam Museum and in Cambridge Colleges, a range of which are discussed in this volume. The eminent historian of Early Modern Art, Professor Jean Michel Massing of King's College, who has advised on the selection of Speelman Fellows for nearly forty years, also contributes an essay here.

Contents:

The Speelman Fellowship and Netherlandish art in Cambridge / Jean Michel Massing & Meredith McNeill Hale

Antoine, the "grand bâtard de Bourgogne", and his portrait by Rogier Van Der Weyden / Lorne Campbell

"Greater or lesser?" " Tuning into the pendants of the Five Senses by Jan Brueghel the Elder and his companions / Joanna Woodall

Fooled again : Trompe l'oeil revisited / Ivan Gaskell

Adraen Brouwer's hybrid technique and social indeterminancy / Maria-Isabel Pousão-Smith

"Beautiful secrets" : poetical disclosure in the work of Michael Seerts (1618-64) / Lindsey Shaw-Miller

The fabric of female rule in Leone Leoni's statue of Mary of Hungary, c. 1556 / Cordula van Wyhe

Hollands hollende koe : the political satirist and moral conviction / Meredith McNeill Hale

The Dutch and Flemish print albums compiled by Lord Fitzwilliam (1745-1816) at the Fitzwilliam Museum / Elenor Long.

Notes:

Series statement from publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9782503566344

2503566340

OCLC:

951724676