Apart from a handful of art historians no one has ever heard of the Brussels painter Hendrick De Clerck (1560-1630). Nevertheless, De Clerck was a contemporary of Peter Paul Rubens, the latter having gone down in history as an artistic trailblazer and painting powerhouse, while Hendrick De Clerck has quietly faded into oblivion. Yet the subtly coded, vibrantly coloured pictures that De Clerck painted for Archduke Albert of Austria and his wife Isabella are political propaganda of the highest order. In creating a mode of ...
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Apart from a handful of art historians no one has ever heard of the Brussels painter Hendrick De Clerck (1560-1630). Nevertheless, De Clerck was a contemporary of Peter Paul Rubens, the latter having gone down in history as an artistic trailblazer and painting powerhouse, while Hendrick De Clerck has quietly faded into oblivion. Yet the subtly coded, vibrantly coloured pictures that De Clerck painted for Archduke Albert of Austria and his wife Isabella are political propaganda of the highest order. In creating a mode of archducal representation that could help to gain an empire, the sky is quite literally the limit. De Clerck represents Isabella as wise Minerva, chaste Diana, the Virgin Mary. And that's nothing compared to her husband, for in De Clerck's paintings Albert is transformed into the sun god Apollo or even into Jesus Christ himself. Hendrick De Clerck's mastery of ingenious pictorial strategy made him a leading player in one of the most ambitious projects history has ever seen. For those who know how to read them, his paintings tell a story of power, political promises, and grandiose ambition. Most of all, they are supreme examples of image-building; for as the Archdukes were well aware, even as a monarch you're only as important as you make yourself.
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Book. Quarto, 416 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Dust jacket wrapped in mylar. Graphic spine and cover have gilt lettering. Gilt on cover slightly chipped. Slight creasing and tearing to head and tail of spine. Minor shelfwear to dust jacket. Moderate tear along top right of back cover to head of spine repaired with tape by previous owner. Minimal creasing and chipping to bottom fore-edges. Textblock clean. Shelved in European Art. Katharina Van Cauteren is a prominent art historian who specializes in the early modern period. This book focuses on the 16th/17th century painter Hendrick De Clerck, who "apart from a handful of art historians no sane person has ever heard of..." His paintings were "political propaganda of the highest order" and this book is more than just an art book, it is also a political history book. The front endpapers feature a family tree and the rear endpages feature a chronology. 1371509. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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