Painting Flanders Abroad

Flemish Art and Artists in Seventeenth-Century Madrid
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-42629-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 325 Seiten, Format (B × H): 176 mm x 252 mm, Gewicht: 1064 g

Reihe: Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History

In Painting Flanders Abroad: Flemish Art and Artists in Seventeenth-Century Madrid, Flemish immigrants and imported Flemish paintings cross the paths of Spanish kings, collectors, dealers, and artists in the Spanish court city, transforming the development and nature of seventeenth-century Spanish painting. Examining these Flemish transplants and the traces their interactions left in archival documents, collection inventories, art treatises, and most saliently Spanish “Golden Age” paintings, this book portrays Spanish society grappling with a long tradition of importing its favorite paintings while struggling to reimagine its own visual idiom. In the process, the book historicizes questions of style, quality, immigration, mobility, identity, and cultural exchange to define what the evolving and amorphous visual concept of “Flemishness” meant to Spanish viewers in an era long before the emergence of nationalism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Newman, Abigail D

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Introduction: A Centuries-Long Relationship

Spain and Flanders

Sixteenth-Century Appreciation for Flemish Specialties: Portraits, Still Lifes, and Landscapes

A Note about Flemishness

1 Flemish Immigrant Painters in Madrid: A Portrait

Flemish Immigrants and the Choice of Madrid

Flemish Cultural Identity in Madrid: The Role of the Noble Guardia

Flemish Portraiture in Spain

“Portraits” of Flemish Immigrant Painters

2 Food and Flowers: The Visual Seductions of Flemishness

Flemish Motifs and a Distinctive Compositional Balance

Flemish vs. Spanish Still Lifes

Cocinas and Bodegones Arrive in Spain

Appeal and Danger of the Flemish Balance

Madrid Modifications

Flemish Flowers

3 Pai´ses flamencos: Picturing Flemish Distance

Distance and Distant Places

Imagining Travel by Land

Painters, Paintings, and Viewers Travel by Sea

Países flamencos and Their Distant Echoes

Coda: Rubens and the End of “Flemish” Art in Spain

Rubens’s Flemishness

Rubens’s Figural Focus and Its Dissemination

Absorbing Rubens in Spain

Notes

Bibliography

Archives, Archival Guides, Unpublished Manuscripts, and a Database

Published Sources

Photo Credits

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Abigail D. Newman (Ph.D., Princeton University) works at the Rubenianum and Rubenshuis and teaches at the University of Antwerp. She has written for journals and exhibitions – including her monograph, Rubens’s St. Andrew “de los Flamencos”: Altarpiece Enframed by a Spanish-Flemish Community (Rubenshuis/BAI, 2018) – and co-edited Many Antwerp Hands: Collaborations in Netherlandish Art (Harvey Miller Publishers/Brepols, 2021).