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Katharina Van Cauteren - Michiel Sweerts - The Flemish Vermeer, Inbunden

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Michiel Sweerts - The Flemish Vermeer

The Extraordinary Story of Michiel Sweerts and His Greatest Painting

Av Katharina Van Cauteren

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Michiel Sweerts knew how to make an entrance – and how to disappear. Born in Brussels in 1618, he went to Rome a merchant’s son and returned home a knight. In between came street life, artists’ studios, learned academies and a lie to the pope. At the height of his career, dazzling ambition collided with spiritual hunger. He turned his back on Europe and set off for the East. The trail vanishes. Years later, it resurfaces in a final, horrifying report.At the book’s heart is Michiel Sweerts’s most audacious painting: an enigmatic Roman interior filled with artists and connoisseurs, antique fragments, a musician and one magnificent woman in blue. She barely looks up from her needlework, yet she commands the scene. Who is she? What picture are we really looking at? For whom was it painted, and what made it so valuable?Katharina Van Cauteren follows Sweerts through personal upheaval and perilous journeys, while tracing his Seamstress across three centuries of changing fortunes to the collection of The Phoebus Foundation in Antwerp. Her investigation ventures into the shadowy territory where painting met the new science of seeing. Drawing on meticulous research, she reveals how art was bound up with craft, money and faith, and how a single overlooked detail can overturn a settled account.Written with wit and verve, this is a rollercoaster ride through the seventeenth century: part biography, part detective story and part love letter to the unruly business of looking at art. Brimming with new insights into Sweerts’s life and work, it turns scattered traces into a story of flesh and blood.Anyone who thinks the case is closed should buckle up.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2027-05-27
  • Mått: 250 x 290 x undefined mm
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 400
  • Förlag: Hannibal Books
  • ISBN: 9789493531512
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KATHARINA VAN CAUTEREN (1981) is Chief of Staff of the Chancellery of The Phoebus Foundation and Executive Director of The Phoebus Foundation Public Benefit Foundation. A passionate art historian and exhibition maker, she has already showcased artists from Flanders and the Low Countries around the world. She took Rubens to India for the first time, introduced the Dutch to Jacob Jordaens, and brought Emile Claus and Rik Wouters to the UK. In the meantime she’s sent Memling, Metsys, Rubens, and Van Dyck globetrotting from Tallinn (Estonia) to Denver and Dallas (USA), and Montreal and Toronto (Canada). In Belgium she’s masterminded exhibitions with such diverse themes as the Antwerp Academy, lace, and portraiture and spotlighted the Flemish masters of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in a variety of new and insightful ways. She also collaborates with other creatives like fashion designer Walter Van Beirendonck, contemporary artists, production houses, and radio makers. The result is always a total experience, a roller coaster ride through art history.With Politics as Painting Van Cauteren authored the definitive work on the Brussels painter Hendrick De Clerck (1560-1630) and the political ambitions of Archdukes Albert and Isabella. She has published extensively not only on fifteenth-, sixteenth-, and seventeenth-century art but also modern artists such as the members of the Sint-Martens-Latem groups as well as James Ensor, Edgard Tytgat and Rik Wouters. In the Phoebus Focus series she has brought the exotic Mere-Monster of Lake Tagua Tagua to intriguing life, disrobed Hendrick De Clerck’s Suzanna and the Elders layer by layer, linked sixteenth-century Antwerp to seventeenth-century Peru via Diego Quispe Tito’s Holy Family in Nazareth, and sketched a colourful portrait of the life and times of Frances, Lady Dering. For where there are pictures there are stories waiting to be told…

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