Sturm der Bilder

Between 1515 and 1616, the Netherlands experienced turbulent times. Humanists such as Erasmus of Rotterdam and artists such as Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Hendrick Goltzius brought the Renaissance to its peak in the north. At the same time, the Protestant Reformation triggered vehement religious conflicts. The uprising against the "Spanish tyranny" of Philip II and his government and the resulting eighty-year war of independence shook the Netherlands to the core in the second half of the 16th century. The Dutch Republic emerged from this and the "Golden Age" began. STURM DER BILDER comments on the prints from this turbulent period, which had to cope not least with an iconoclastic storm of images. The interdisciplinary essays and the innovative catalog explore and interpret the life and work of outstanding pamphleteers, poets, artists and engravers such as Lucas van Leyden, Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert, Maarten van Heemskerck, Frans Floris, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Willem van Haecht and Hendrick Goltzius.

edited by Ivan Gaskel/Martin van Gelderen

published: 2016
scope: 188 pages, colour throughout

size: 21 × 26 cm / 8.2 × 10.2 inch

paperback, thread stitching

ISBN 978-3-945869-04-8

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