Browsing by Subject "Antwerp"
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<italic>Het Tapissierspand</italic>: Interpreting the Success of the Antwerp Tapestry Market in the 1500s
(2012)During the 1550s, a warehouse was constructed in Antwerp with funds from both the city government and a private investor. This building, the Tapissierspand, became the global center for selling and distributing tapestries ... -
Law, Commerce, and the Rise of New Imagery in Antwerp, 1500-1600
(2011)Marinus Van Reymerswaele's painting of 1542, <italic>The Lawyer's Office</italic>, was a completely new type of image in the history of art. It shows a lawyer and his assistant behind a desk strewn with briefs, wax seals ... -
The Role of the Antwerp Painter-Dealer Guilliam Forchondt in the Large-Scale Distribution of New Imagery in Europe and the Americas during the Seventeenth Century
(2015)This dissertation focuses on the large-scale distribution of imagery from the Southern Netherlands across Europe and the Americas, particularly on the large number of paintings exported from Antwerp-Mechelen to Spain and ...
