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Before I forget

Please, DO disturb

2 October 20183 October 2018 an_bi

Frontispieces are prints facing the title-page of books (with exceptions, of course) . As plates, they usually illustrate the content of the book with more or less complex iconographies, but in many occasions the plate shows a portrait. This can … Continue reading Please, DO disturb

Before I forget

Baroque Scene Change

25 September 201825 September 2018 an_bi

Ah, social media! What a source of interesting information you are! Yesterday Prof. Steve Gillam shared on his Facebook profile the amazing video I am posting here as a link: https://www.facebook.com/steve.gilliam.75/videos/10156987128758689/. 100% worth watching.   Continue reading Baroque Scene Change

Before I forget, Research in Progress

MI at Bonhams’auctions – a selection

15 August 201815 August 2018 an_bi

A selection of works of art with auctioned at Bonhams throughtout the late years. The images are drawn from their online catalogues. This gallery will be … Continue reading MI at Bonhams’auctions – a selection

Before I forget, Events, Links

Goltzius’ Self-portrait

18 April 201818 April 2018 an_bi

In 1594 Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) engraved a set of large plates with the Stories of the Virgin, also called “The Masterpiece”. The plates, 6 in total, are really big and in each of them the engraver explicitly imitates the graphic language … Continue reading Goltzius’ Self-portrait

Before I forget, Events, Trips

TEFAF highlights 2018

11 March 201812 March 2018 an_bi

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Before I forget

And the printer became Judas

20 February 201812 March 2018 an_bi

Oh yes, former Haarlem major and book publisher Jan van Suren (1517-1591), masterfully engraved in a very intense portrait by Hendrick Glotzius (1558-1617), a few years later appeared in a collection of Saints designed by Crispijn de Passe I (1564-1637), … Continue reading And the printer became Judas

Before I forget, Discoveries

The Neimeijer Archive pt.2: notes on a portrait

13 February 201813 March 2018 an_bi

The Neimeijer archival boxes contain mainly excerpts from auction catalogues. The works of art documented, belong to any age and are realized with any technique, from painting to print, from drawing to sculpture. Today, while working on files with men … Continue reading The Neimeijer Archive pt.2: notes on a portrait

Before I forget
External link to From sketch to press: On printmaking

From sketch to press: On printmaking

7 February 2018 an_bi

Latest blog post on Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur concerning the art of printmaking. Literally. http://antiquariaatvandersteur.blogspot.nl/2018/02/from-sketch-to-press-on-print-making.html Continue reading From sketch to press: On printmaking

Before I forget, Events

Music Iconography in the Archive J.W.Neimeijer @RKD

5 February 2018 an_bi

(…) In September 2017 Dr J.W. Neimeijer, director of the Rijksprentenkabinet from 1974 to 1990, presented the RKD with an extensive art-historical collection of images of Northern and Southern Netherlandish paintings and drawings from the eighteenth and the beginning of … Continue reading Music Iconography in the Archive J.W.Neimeijer @RKD

Before I forget, Discoveries

The frontispiece of Il Colombo

19 January 201812 March 2018 an_bi

Il Colombo overo l’India riscoperta, is a ‘dramma per musica’ written by cardinal Pietro Ottoboni in 1690 [link to Googlebook], published under the pseudonym of Crateo Pradelini (anagram of Cardinal Pietro). As one reads on the title­page ‘da rappresentarsi al … Continue reading The frontispiece of Il Colombo

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