Can parents ever overcome the loss of their children? Theirs was a happy family: Jaap and Ellen van den Bergh and their two daughters, Rosemarie and Marianne. Then the German army invaded the Netherlands in May 1940 and everything changed. The family was of Jewish descent and they were no longer sure of their lives. By selling a serene painting by Pissarro, The Girl Lying in the Grass, they funded the expenses of their hiding place. Jaap and Ellen van den Bergh survived the war. For a long ti...

Leo Gestel en Gustave De Smet, vluchtelingen – zielsverwanten Gestel (1881-1941) en De Smet (1877-1943) kregen beiden de eerste schilderlessen van hun vader en kozen op jonge leeftijd voor een leven als vrij kunstenaar. Ze behoorden elk in eigen land al gauw tot de voorhoede, die het klassieke academische wilde afschudden en op zoek gingen naar stijlvernieuwingen. In Nederland waren dat Gestel, Sluijters en Mondriaan; in Vlaanderen De Smet met onder meer van den Berghe en Permeke.

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In dit boek worden de codes blootgelegd die aan het ontwerp van op een vaste plaats in de kerk aangebrachte orgels en orgelensembles tot ca. 1530 ten grondslag lagen – met speciale aandacht voor de relatie tussen het orgelensemble en het interieur van de kerk. Aan het ontwerp lagen getalsmatige, metrische en geometrische patronen en modellen ten grondslag. De relatie van het orgelensemble met het interieur was gebaseerd op adjunctie, wederzijdse toevoeging met behoud van beider zelfstandigh...

Boeken kan je niet alleen lezen, je kan er ook mee pronken.

De schitterendste boekbanden zijn de geborduurde, gemaakt van zijde, goud, zilver en parels afkomstig uit de hele wereld. Pure luxe, maar ook stille getuigen van een maatschappij in beweging.

Meer dan dertig geborduurde boekbanden uit de periode 1585-1670 hebben de tand des tijds doorstaan. Ze liggen zorgvuldig opgeslagen in musea en bibliotheken in de hele wereld. Dit was dé bloeiperiode van de borduurkunst, maar er is bijzonder we...

Queer Exhibition Histories comprises case studies highlighting the countless efforts, both large and small, of LGBTQIA+ artists and curators, centring on queer art exhibitions and their modes of documentation and archiving. Often, the legacy of these projects largely depends on personal archives, memories, and paraphernalia, with the overriding notion, or need, for public display. In these contexts, ‘public’ is relative in events that were either short-lived, held under the veil of domest...

A unique guide to making sense of modern and contemporary art through seven different approaches, focusing on twenty major artworks from around the world.

This richly illustrated, four-colour textbook introduces the art and archaeology of ancient Greece, from the Bronze Age through to the Roman conquest. Suitable for students with no prior knowledge of ancient art, this textbook reviews the main objects and monuments of the ancient Greek world, emphasizing the context and function of these artefacts in their particular place and time. Students are led to a rich understanding of how objects were meant to be perceived, what 'messages' they transm...

The Short Story of Modern Art explains the how, why and when of modern art – who introduced certain things, what they were, where they were produced, and why they matter.

Simply constructed, the book explores 50 key works – from the realist painting of Courbet to a contemporary installation by Yayoi Kusama – and then links them to the most important movements, themes and techniques. Accessible, concise and richly illustrated, the book reveals the connections between different periods, ...

Focusing on the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy and Hungary, countries that represent key variations in European public administration, this textbook explores how the cultural, organizational, personnel and financial dimensions of public administration compare. The guiding questions are whether, to what extent and why the politico-administrative systems and their reforms show convergence or divergence from Europeanization. Key features of the second edition: Country profiles, comparative r...