Ger Luijten Bücher

Herausgegeben Von Klaus Albrecht Schröder Und Marian Bisanz-prakken ; Mit Beiträgen Von Marian Bisanz-prakken ... [et Al.]. Catalog For The Exhibition At The Albertina, Vienna, Mar. 26 - June 27, 2004. Includes Bibliographical References

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Ger Luijten

Bound in the publisher's original cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in blind.

The Boymans-Van Beuningen Museum of Rotterdam contains some of the most important drawings by Old Masters of Dutch, Flemish, Italian, English, French and Spanish schools from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries. This catalogue includes 104 drawings that range from very early German and Italian artists such as Pisanello and Gozzoli to early Netherlandish artists such as Schonganer, Altdorfer, the van Eyck School, Hieronymus Bosch, to nineteenth century French artists such as Ingres, Manet, Degas and Cézanne. Other distinguished artists represented are Durer, Rembrandt, Rubens and Watteau. The catalogue entries contain extensive literature on the drawings as well as information on provenance and technique. Discussion on matters of attribution and information is given in the footnotes and not in the running text, leaving the entries to be read as small essays on the drawings. All the 104 drawings are reproduced full-page in colour. Also included are 220 comparative illustrations in black and white of similar drawings by the same artist, or other related works of art.

Hieronymus Cock (1518-1570) was an Antwerp painter and printmaker. Together with his wife, he was one of the first to establish a publishing house for prints. From 1548 their firm “At the Sign of the Four Winds” issued hundreds of important etchings and engravings. Prints after frescoes and paintings by Italian artists Raphael and Bronzino, the first series of classical ruins, antique sculpture, as well as designs by such Northern artists as Maarten van Heemskerck and Frans Floris were distributed all over Europe and helped to spread Renaissance ideals of beauty. It was Cock who spotted the talent of Pieter Bruegel, an artist who would eventually supply Cock with more than sixty designs for prints.