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Arenberg

Title
Arenberg / [compiled and] edited by Mark Derez, Soetkin Vanhauwaert and Anne Verbrugge.
Publication
  • Turnhout : Brepols, [2018]
  • ©2018

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Additional Authors
  • Derez, M. (Mark)
  • Vanhauwaert, Soetkin, 1987-
  • Verbrugge, Anne
  • M (Museum : Louvain, Belgium), host institution.
  • Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven (1970- ), organizer.
Description
400 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), coats of arms, facsimiles, genealogical tables, maps, plans, portraits; 31 cm
Summary
The Arenberg lineage belongs to the high nobility, whose estates, interests and familial connections have traditionally extended across borders. Through their prominent military role in European conflicts, the Arenbergs derived power, prowess and prestige. Their royal standing was equally reflected in the highly superior quality of their art collection, as they commissioned works from contemporaries such as Rubens, Van Dyck, and later Watteau. In the nineteenth century, the Duke of Arenberg's newly established gallery in his palace in Brussels was renowned for its Flemish and Dutch masters, such as Brueghel and Jordaens, Rembrandt and Vermeer, and was explicitly recommended as a private museum in travel guides of the time: Vaut le voyage! This exceptional collection is also indicative of the practice of collecting art and promoting artists which has long been an integral part of the culture of nobility.
Uniform Title
Arenberg : beauty and power.
Alternative Title
Arenberg : portrait of a family, story of a collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • exhibition catalogs.
  • Biographies.
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • History.
  • Catalogues d'exposition.
Note
  • First published on the occastion of the exhibition 'Arenberg: Beauty and Power", held at M-Museum Leuven, October 26, 2018 - January 20, 2019 and the festival Five Centuries of Arenberg, October 20, 2018 - January 20, 2019, an organization of KU[n]ST Leuven vzw., the joint venture of the City of Leuven and KU Leuven.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-393) and index.
ISBN
  • 9782503581156
  • 2503581153
OCLC
  • on1046072344
  • 1046072344
  • SCSB-9201434
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library