Product Description: One remarkable feature of European culture as it developed in the Renaissance was the accommodation it made with ancient paganism. The classical gods and their legends were allegorised, transformed into symbolic figures or emblematic scenes that might accord with Christian morality...read more

Product Description: A thorough and unique survey focusing on the socio-economic background, production, and actual construction of carved wooden altarpieces of the late Middle Ages and the early Renaissance in the Low Countries. The symposium was part of a methodological and interdisciplinary research project on the characteristics, evolution and socio-cultural significance of the carved altarpieces of Brabant (15th – 16th centuries), conducted by both universities from 2001 to 2004, in collaboration with the Musées royaux d’Art et d’Histoire in Brussels and the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren...read more

Product Description: Throughout his life, Rubens was closely connected with the world of books, executing or supervising the designs for over 80 title pages, book illustrations, and theses. It was through his long association with Balthasar Moretus, the creative force at Plantin Press, that book illustration took on a new dimension in 17th-century Antwerp...read more