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Item Number: 83989
Title: STRADANUS 1523-1605, Court Artist of the Medici
Author: Baroni, Alessandra ; Manfred Sellink (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9782503529967
Description: Turnhout: Brepols, 2012. 30cm., pbk., 379pp. with numerous color plates. English text. Contents: S. Janssens, The Flemish Roots of Johannes Stradanus ; L. Meoni, The Medici Tapestry Works and Johannes Stradanus as Cartoonist ; A. Baroni, A Flemish Artist at the Medici Court in Florence in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century ; M. Sellink, Johannes Stradanus and Philips Galle ; G.J. van der Sman, A Fertile Imagination ; M. Leesberg, Between Copy and Piracy ; Catalogue of Paintings, Tapestries, Drawings & Prints ; Bibliography ; Index of Catalogued Works by Location. Summary : Johannes Stradanus (Jan van der Straet, Giovanni Stradano) is one of the most well-known unknown artists in history. Even though the Bruges-born painter (1523-1605) had a more than successful career in the highly competitive city of Florence in the second half of the 16th century, his name long remained a well-hidden secret for specialists only. Many of his works, though, are very well known. Around 1570, Stradanus – who began as designer of tapestries and fresco painter in service of the Medici – started a second career as draughtsman and designer of hundreds of prints. These were engraved, published and distributed all over the then-known world by Antwerp publishers in huge numbers. It are these works – widely collected, copied and used – which secured Stradanus’s place in art history as an inventive and infl uential artist. Based on the fi rst ever monographic exhibition on Stradanus in the Groeningemuseum in Bruges (2008-2009), this study aims to reassess the importance and versatility of the artist’s oeuvre.
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