Flemish prints on show in the Spanish National Library

6 November 2015 – 31 January 2016 | Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España

The exhibition Rubens, Van Dyck y la Edad de Oro del grabado flamenco presents 175 prints from the collection of the National Library of Spain and four paintings from the Prado Museum. It consists of five sections; the first dedicated to Rubens and the best printers of his works, the second to Van Dyck, the third to genre prints, landscapes and genre scenes, the fourth to Rubens and book illustrations,and the last to Rubens, Van Dyck and contemporary European prints.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue, 442 pp. (ISBN 978-844-92462-44-5). Copies can be ordered from the online museum shop for €39.

For more information, see the museum’s website

 

Substantial acquisition of prints in Bruges

31 October 2015 – 14 February 2016 | Bruges, Groeningemuseum/Arentshuis
5 March 2016 – 19 June 2016

Recently the museum acquired a substantial collection of 1,700 prints from the retiring local print dealer Guy Van Hoorebeke. The collection comprises of sheets from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, including works by Lucas van Leyden, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and by modern and contemporary artists such as Félicien Rops, James Ensor and Pierre Alechinsky. Two selections will be on show consecutively, the old master prints the Groeningemuseum, the modern and contemporary works in the Arentshuis.

For more information, visit the museum’s website

From Pen to Press: Hans Bol’s Emblemata Evangelica in Brussels

15 October 2015 – 23 January 2016 | Brussels, Royal Library of Belgium

For the first time since it was bought at auction in London last year (see our News item of 16 July 2014) the unique bound print series Emblemata Evangelica by Hans Bol is now on show for a large audience. The rediscovery of this remarkable and intact series – both the prints and the preliminary drawings bound together in an album – is of great significance for the understanding of Bol’s working methods as a draughtsman and print designer and forms an important addition to his oeuvre. The exhibition shows the series in the context of the booming graphic industry in Antwerp in the second half of the sixteenth-century and is accompanied by a catalogue written by curator Joris Van Grieken and his colleague Stefaan Hautekeete of the Royal Museums of Fine Art in Brussels.

For more information, visit their website.

For the catalogue check here.

Bosch to Bruegel: prints and paintings in Rotterdam

10 October 2015 – 17 January 2016 | Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

The exhibition Uncovering Everyday Life – From Bosch to Bruegel brings together ‘politically incorrect’ paintings and prints of the highest standard: forty sixteenth-century paintings, including Bosch’s ‘Haywain’ from the Prado (Madrid) and Pieter Bruegel’s equally well-known ‘The Peasant and the Nest Robber’ from the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna), and the same number of prints, including wonderful engravings and etchings by – among others – Lucas van Leyden, Hans Bol,  Jan Vermeyen and Pieter Bruegel.  This is the first ever exhibition devoted to sixteenth-century genre scenes, a radical departure from the traditions of religious art and portraiture. The exhibition is curated by Friso Lammertse and Peter van der Coelen (who is also a member of the editorial board of Delineavit et Sculpsit). They are the editors and main authors of the exhibition catalogue, which is published in a Dutch edition only.

Fore more information, check the museum’s website

Order your copy of the catalogue from the museum’s webshop.

 

The graphic legacy of Bosch in Dresden

19 March – 15 June 2015 | Dresden

The Kupferstich-Kabinett in the Dresdner Residenzschloss presents a most interesting exhibition – Hieronymus Bosch. The Legacy – on the dissemination through prints of the phantastical and fascinating imagery of this influential  early Netherlandish artist. Bosch’s bizarre subjects and motifs were popular in his time and provided inspiration for many followers. The show not only contains prints by and after Bosch but also paintings and applied arts.

For more information, see the printroom’s website.