From Memling to Rubens: The Golden Age of Flanders

The coffee table book "From Memling to Rubens: The Golden Age of Flanders" presents a blistering selection of masterpieces by Flemish masters, from Memling to Rubens. The book tells the story of Flemish art from the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as you have never read it before. It is a roller coaster ride through 300 years of cultural history.

Why did Hans Memling paint everything in such detail? How, in a few brushstrokes, did Rubens create special effects that Steven Spielberg would envy? And why were the Southern Netherlands the artistic center of the world for three centuries?

Leading the way are breathtaking masterpieces from the collection of The Phoebus Foundation, unknown gems by Hans Memling, Quinten Metsys, Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony Van Dyck, among others, that immerse you in a world full of folly and sin, fascination and ambition. Along the way you will encounter dukes and emperors, rich citizens and poor saints, painting galleries as wine cellars, and Antwerp as Hollywood on the Scheldt.

Dr. Katharina Van Cauteren (b. 1981) heads the Chancellery of the Phoebus Foundation. Katharina is an art historian and has already curated numerous exhibitions from Belgium to India. In the book "From Memling to Rubens," Van Cauteren tells a compelling story about the image and its meaning, and the link between culture and society. A fascinating story about us, and about who we are today - as people.

Specifications
Title: From Memling to Rubens: The Golden Age of Flanders
Author: Dr. Katharina Van Cauteren
Publisher: Hannibal
Size: 290 x 250 mm
Size: 432 pages
Language: English
Material: Hardcover
ISBN: 9789463887434

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