An incredible detective story! The exact location of Vermeer's famous Little Street has occupied art historians for centuries. Did Vermeer paint his own house, his view or did he invent this wonderful composition? With new information Frans Grijzenhout is finally able to identify the site of the Little Street. His story was world news. An astonishing discovery that sheds new light on Vermeer's life and work, and his family. In Delft you can visit the location of the Little Street. English lan...

In een klein museum in Parijs hangt een reeks van zes wandtapijten: De Dame met de Eenhoorn. Deze middeleeuwse schat prikkelt al eeuwenlang de verbeelding.

In deze rijk geïllustreerde uitgave onderzoekt de schrijfster, die zich lang en intensief met de wandkleden heeft beziggehouden, de betekenis van de voorstellingen op de kleden. Haar ontdekking is dat de wandkleden het verhaal vertellen van een inwijdingsweg - een loutering van de ziel.

The Measurement of Presence

Iris Kensmil and Remy Jungerman

176 PAGES - 30 X 21.8 CM - SOFTCOVER - ENGLISH EDITION - ISBN: 978 94 9267 780 8 - € 30

For the Venice Biennale 2019, Benno Tempel,

director of the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag

curated the exhibition The Measurement of

Presence, in which he combines installations

by Remy Jungerman with wall paintings and

paintings by Iris Kensmil.

The Measurement of Presence is a

transnational presentation that explores

traditions and the past, bringing...

The Spanish Bernini

Pedro de Mena y Medrano (1628–1688) is

nowadays the most highly regarded master

of Spanish Baroque sculpture, on a par with

his contemporaries, the great seventeenthcentury

painters Velázquez, Zurbarán and

Murillo.

Mena’s contributions to Spanish Baroque

sculpture are unsurpassed in both technical

skill and expressiveness of his religious

subjects. His ability to sculpt the human body

was remarkable, and he excelled in creating

figures and scenes for contemplation.

T...

The definitive monograph on the work of sculptor, installation artist, and Arte Povera pioneer Luciano Fabro

The most comprehensive monograph available on the greatest living glassblower, Lino Tagliapietra

René Magritte. Attempting the Impossible contains more than 300 works and also a lot of unpublished material. Each chapter considers extensively a key work and depicts the intellectual and historical context that lead to the creation of both that work and the related paintings and drawings. 'As a result, this monograph is required reading for anyone seeking an initiation into the understanding of Magritte. The abundant and original iconography is echoed in the arrangement of a text that, fro...

With Water on Water, the last of three publications, Dutch artist Joost de Jonge brings his decade-long project, “Painted Poetry & Painterly Poetics – an ekphrastic notion,” to a thunderous conclusion. The weighty volume, brimming with writing from around the globe and rich in the work of de Jonge himself, investigates and celebrates that “ekphrastic notion” by surveying possibilities for cross-disciplinary influence and address.

So much work in multi- and intermedia, from the Wagne...

“…when I paint, I lose track of time and I step outside myself to a certain degree. While making a series of paintings I can’t even remember what happens during the days.“

For an artist who paints without a preconceived plan Harry Markusse is very well organised. On his ‘quests for a pleasing relationship between colour, form and space’ he makes sure that circumstances are such -in time and space- that the right conditions are present. This way he can afford to lose track of ti...