This lavishly illustrated book records the high profile restoration of Rembrandt van Rijn's 17th century masterpiece, The Night Watch, one of the world's most famous paintings. Many questions about the creation of this work have been answered by extensive technical studies done in conjunction with the restoration. The popular Dutch TV program The Secret of the Master has documented the restoration of The Night Watch in four episodes, assisted in this by various external specialists. This book...

During the summer of the year 2000, Medieval Art Historian Scott Montgomery and Early Modern Historian Alice Bauer undertook the task of retracing the medieval pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela. This book documents their thousand-mile, sixty-seven-day journey walking from Le Puy en Velay, France to the tomb of St. James at Santiago de Compostela, Spain. It also examines the historical background and numerous historical lessons gleaned from the experience.

As academics, Montgomery ...

‘Each person’s grief is as unique as their fingerprint. But what everyone has in common is that no matter how they grieve, they share a need for their grief to be witnessed.’

David Kessler (2019)

The pandemic has once again made us more aware of the fragility of life and the importance of being able to properly mourn the dead. Dramaturg Guy Cools has been researching laments and other rituals of mourning. He is particularly interested in how the emotions of loss need to be externalized....

What is the role of the curator when organizing digital art exhibitions in offline and online spaces? Analyzing the influence and impact of curating digital art, the book focuses on how the experiments of curators, artists and designers opened the possibility to reconfigure traditional models and methods for presenting and accessing digital art. In the process, it addresses how web-based practices challenge certain established museological values and precipitate alternative ways of understand...

- Forms an important and useful reference for architects, interior designers, and home owners

- Richly illustrated with more than 30 case studies from around the globe

- Provides detailed analysis of the process undergone in each case study

- Includes helpful before and after pictures

An inspiring guide showcasing skillful renovations and adaptions of old homes for the modern lifestyle Renovation continues to be an important and fundamental part of modern architecture, whether it be throu...

An infotainment photo book that tells the most exciting, spectacular, or bizarre stories of the female side of the animal kingdom in pictures and text. Text in English and German.

The bestselling One Line A Day series has sold over 2 million copies! This new rainbow-coloured One Line A Day is a cheerful and easy way to record and reflect.

Op het eerste gezicht lijken James Ensor (1860-1949) en Roger Raveel (1921-2013), alsook hun werk, totaal van elkaar te verschillen. Niet alleen behoren beide Belgische schilders tot een andere generatie, ook door hun afkomst en milieu onderscheiden ze zich. Doch bij nader toezien kunnen we gemeenschappelijke kenmerken ontdekken. Wat beiden typeert is hun gehechtheid aan hun geboortegrond. Zoals Ensor Oostende niet kon verlaten, zo bleef Raveel zijn gehele leven aan Machelen trouw. Beide schi...

Art and science are both ways of understanding the world and orientating oneself in it. Scientists and artists are society's visionaries, and this unlikely collaboration between the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and KVS aims to reconnect these different disciplines, sending the strong message that tomorrow’s society will only be built on the basis of dialogue and the search for common ground.

Mindblowers is structured around four themes: Resistance, Imagination, Time and Beauty. The 39 contrib...

As one of the most successful Danish ceramists of his generation, Morten Lobner Espersen (1965) explores the materials of the discipline – clay and glazes – and their sensuous pleasures in objects of sublime beauty.

As curator and author Glenn Adamson puts it in his essay for this book, Espersen is ‘the rigorous maker and colorist, who has learned his glaze chemistry backwards and forwards. He’s also the intuitive sculptor, finding the form as he makes it, and the elusive dreamer, ...