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Cucù Couchet! / (Peekaboo Couchet!)

11 March 201930 December 2019 an_bi

Besides collecting pictures of musical instruments and performances, Dr. J.W. Niemeijer amassed a reasonable amount of portraits of composers, musicians and more in general people related to music. A striking one is the supposed-to-be portrait of Johannes Couchet (1610-1655)* Flemish … Continue reading Cucù Couchet! / (Peekaboo Couchet!)

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

Events

Amsterdam International Antiquarian Book Fair 2018 – Catalogue

20 September 2018 an_bi

Here is the pdf fair catalogue of Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur. Amsterdam_6-7Oct The fair will take place in Amsterdam at Mariott Hotel the 6th and 7th of October 2018. For more please visit https://amsterdambookfair.net/home/. Free entrace.   Continue reading Amsterdam International Antiquarian Book Fair 2018 – Catalogue

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

Trips

Quick jump to Berlin

30 March 201830 March 2018 an_bi

It takes very little time to fall in love with Berlin. Although my visit was very short (one and a half day) I managed to walk around the city a bit and behold its charm. I lodged in Kreuzberg, the … Continue reading Quick jump to Berlin

Discoveries, Research in Progress

Pieces and Pieces

2 March 201813 March 2018 an_bi

Social media are a great tool to help discover new things, and this is the (yet) short story of a painting that I saw for the first time on Facebook. It is a bust portrait of a man, seen from … Continue reading Pieces and Pieces

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, 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

The Double

16 May 201716 May 2017 an_bi

Antonio Caranzano (active 1577 – 1618) [Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, WA1863.4008] GRANDEZZA MAHUMETANA / IGNORANTIA MAHUMETANA [1583], when images are worth a thousand words Continue reading The Double

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  • Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur
  • Fondazione Memofonte
  • Griselda Online
  • METmuseum on Printing
  • RKD

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