“We geven de schuld graag aan iemand anders: God,

het kwaad, het lot. Het kwaad bestaat niet; er is geen

God; de schuld ligt altijd bij ons. Het is onze zwakheid;

het is de verdorvenheid van onze geest en ziel die de

problemen schept waarmee we in onze samenleving

te maken krijgen. Het gebrek aan onderwijs is de

voornaamste factor die ons in de diepten van die

verdrietige momenten doet belanden. Ons gebrek aan

betrokkenheid leidt tot die rampzalige gebeurtenissen.

Van dictatuur over oorlog ...

Jan Schoonhoven (1914-1994) became world-famous with his sculptural reliefs and works on paper. For nearly 40 years, Schoonhoven worked on developing his reliefs (made of papier-mâché, paper and cardboard) alongside his job as a civil servant at the Dutch Post Office.

For the first time, this monograph places Jan Schoonhoven in an international context, as an active and influential player in the European post-war developments in art. The early years are covered in detail: the influences of, ...

Unique view on the 'tronies' in art from the Netherlands

Our fascination for faces transcends eras and cultures. Turning Heads – Rubens, Rembrandt and Vermeer highlights a remarkable genre in painting to which little attention has so far been paid: tronies or study heads, which were intended first and foremost to depict an emotion or a character trait. Since the model’s identity did not matter, painters could truly go to town with these heads. Tronies were drawn and painted by some of the...

This monograph brings together Rody Luton’s artistic practice in its diversity: painting, photography, drawing and mixed media. Covering three decades, it invites a dialogue across time as well as mediums. Rody Luton.Time Encircled presents her oeuvre as a journey of exploration, as if wandering in a landscape, encountering both human-made and natural environments.

Nature is the vital inspiration. In Rody Luton’s own words (from the Preface): ‘I reach out to the natural world and engag...

The definitive volume on Gaetano Pesce's incomparable life and career, as told in the iconoclastic artist-designer's own words

This new monograph, published in partnership with the Centre Pompidou, presents more than 80 of Foster's key projects, alongside essays by Frederic Migayrou and Philip Jodidio.

An expansive and timely survey on contemporary British photographer and artist Nick Waplington, with work spanning his entire 40-year career - his first comprehensive retrospective volume

Toen de schilder Jacopo Tintoretto

(1518-1594) rond 1560-1570 zijn

Heilige Catharina schilderde, een

0monumentaal altaarstuk voor de

Venetiaanse kerk San Geminiano,

had zijn roem een hoogtepunt bereikt.

“Capriccioso, presto, e risoluto”, dat

is hoe de Italiaanse kunsthistoricus

Giorgio Vasari hem destijds omschreef.

Wispelturig, snel en vastberaden.

Vasari kon Tintoretto’s stijl moeilijk

plaatsen maar vond hem toch een van

fascinerendste schilders aller tijden.

Het emotioneel beladen we...

Crazy about Dymphna

The Story of a Girl who Drove a Medieval City Mad


Sven Van Dorst, Stephan Kemperdick, Till-Holger Borchert a.o.

Around 1505 Goossen Van der Weyden, Rogier’s grandson, painted a monumental altarpiece depicting the various phases of Saint Dymphna’s insane life.

This Irish princess, who fled her incestuous father in the sixth century, was beheaded in the Kempen village of Geel. On account of her tragic end and uncompromising chastity, the princess was venerated from t...

Leonardo da Vinci is the archetypal universal man, a multi-talented genius who left an indelible mark on all the realms of art and knowledge he ventured into – painting, drawing and architecture, natural science, anatomy, mathematics, engineering and astronomy. His genius as a painter was reinforced by an analytical understanding of not only the human body but also nature and the physical laws of light. On the five-hundredth anniversary of Leonardo’s death in 1519, this book celebrates th...