Portraits de la Renaissance aux Pays-Bas

Abstract

The art of portraiture really flourished during the Renaissance. The individual was given a place in society and wealthy citizens were keen to have their portrait painted. This is an exhibition of 50 portraits from the 16th century by masters such as Quentin Metsys, Joos van Cleve and Joachim Beuckelaer. They immortalised their contemporaries in astonishingly deft and extremely detailed, almost photorealistic paintings. These portraits were painted in the main centres of the Netherlands and often had a different role to play.

Contents

Portrait et décorum / Koenraad Jonckheere -- Le portrait flamand : antécédents et naissance d'un genre pictural de la Renaissance / Till-Holger Borchert -- "Forced fashioning" : Aspects de la différenciation de genre dans le portrait au XVIe siècle dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux / Katlijne van der Stighelen -- "Grand desordre et excez" : portraits, vêtements et lois somptuaires au XVIe siècle / Bert Watteeuw -- La fonction du portrait / Marieke van Wamel -- Émotion et mobilité : les portraitistes des Pays-Bas au XVIe siècle / Frederica van Dam -- L'art du portrait : de l'humanisme durant le Renaissance à un humanisme au XXIe siècle / Paul Dujardin -- Catalogue -- The art of portraiture (translation) / Paul Dujardin.