Frans Floris (1519/20-1570): Imagining a Northern Renaissance

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-30725-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 267/19, 810 Seiten, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 253 mm, Gewicht: 2271 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History / Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History

Frans Floris de Vriendt radically transformed Netherlandish art. His monumental mythologies introduced a new appreciation for the heroic nude to the Low Countries and his religious art challenged standards of decorum. Born into a family of sculptors and architects, Floris refashioned his art through travel, first studying with the humanist painter Lambert Lombard in Liège and then continuing on to Italy. These experiences defined the hybridizing novelty of his art, forged by juxtaposing antique and modern, Italian and northern sources. This book maps Floris’s hybrid style onto shifting conceptions of cultural, religious, and political identity on the eve of the Dutch Revolt. It explores his collaborations and rivalries, engagement with artistic theory, hierarchical workshop, and revolutionary use of print.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wouk, Edward H

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Map of Antwerp (1565)
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of Figures

1 Introduction. Fall and Redemption: The Divine Artist

2 A Portrait of the Artist: Floris’s Biography in Context

3 Iter Italicum: Floris’s Italian Journey in Context

4 Triumphal Entry: Floris’s Return to Antwerp (1546–49)

5 The Floris Workshop: Practice, Theory, Ritual

6 Portraits and Head Studies

7 Experiments in Religious Art: Style and Audience

8 Ardens amator artium: Floris, Niclaes Jonghelinck, and the Nature of Netherlandish Art

9 Losing Faith: Floris’s Allegory of the Trinity

10 Iconoclasm and Poesie

11 Humanæ Societati Necessaria: Frans Floris’s Vision for the Arts

12 Coda

Appendix A: Mentions of Floris in Literary Sources
Appendix B: Catalogue of Known Drawings in the Lost Album Dansaert
Appendix C: Text and Music of the chanson “Le Cruel Mars”
Appendix D: Timeline of Floris’s Chief Dated Works in Historical Context
Checklist of Paintings
Checklist of Drawings
Checklist of Prints
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Edward H. Wouk is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Visual Studies at The University of Manchester. His recent publications include Marcantonio Raimondi, Raphael and the Image Multiplied (Manchester, 2016) and the co-edited volume, with Suzanne Karr Schmidt, Prints in Translation (1450–1750): Image, Materiality, Space (Routledge, 2017).