Moving Sculptures

Southern Netherlandish Alabasters from the 16th to 17th Centuries in Central and Northern Europe
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-27093-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 386 Seiten, Format (B × H): 187 mm x 251 mm, Gewicht: 1204 g

Reihe: Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History

The Low Countries are generally considered to be the land of painting. Consequently, sculpture, especially that of the 16th century, has been insufficiently explored. In Moving Sculptures Aleksandra Lipinska presents a little-known chapter of the history of Netherlandish sculpture: the serial production of small-scale alabaster reliefs, altarpieces and statuettes in the workshops of Mechelen and Antwerp between c. 1525 and 1650. She gives the reader an insight into the rules of this craft, the specificity of the material, and the marketing methods employed. But the innovative element of this study lies in the fact that Lipinska analyses the phenomenon from the perspective of its distant recipients in Central and Northern Europe on the basis of works largely unknown to the broader public.

Zielgruppe

All interested in the art history of the Early Modern period, especially of Netherlandish sculpture, and anyone concerned with the art market, culture transfer, art of Central, Eastern and Northern Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lipi&

Lipinska, Aleksandra

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Bildhauerei, Plastik, Denkmäler
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgments vii

List of Figures, Graphs, and Tables ix

Introduction 1

Part 1
At the Source: Production of the Alabaster Sculpture in the Southern Netherlands
1 Alabaster as a Sculpture Material 17
2 Alabaster in Netherlandish Sculpture from the Late Gothic to
the Early Baroque 44
3 Serial Production of Alabaster Sculpture in Mechelen 96
4 The Spread of Alabaster Sculpture from the Low
Countries 124

Part 2
At the Destination: Southern Netherlandish Alabaster Sculpture in Central and Northern Europe
5 Altarpieces 143
6 Tombs and Epitaphs 205
7 Exhibits of Real and ‘Imagined’ Collections 254
8 Alabaster Chambers 271

Epilogue 279
Documents 287
Bibliography 301
Notes 333
Index of Persons 372
Index of Geographic Names 380

Über Autor(innen)

Aleksandra Lipinska, Ph.D. (2003), is a junior professor of the Art History of Central and Eastern Europe at the Technische Universität Berlin. She has published extensively on Early Modern sculpture as well as on the issues of artistic migration and material meaning.