This book presents both an overview of the print production in the
17th century Southern Low Countries and a focused approach to the
work of three collaborators of Rubens. Apart from their work as
painters, these artists quickly penetrated the world of prints and
each dominated a specific market segment. Abraham Van Diepenbeeck
was a prolific designer of individual prints and print series.
Erasmus Quelinus II often drew models for book-illustrations.
Cornelis Schut ran an important workshop which produced many
beautiful etchings. The book explores how these artists positioned
themselves in an artistic field, operating in a highly competitive
field that presented both threats and new opportunities. Their
oeuvre is firmly set in a European context, spanning local,
regional and international markets. An analysis is made of the
relation between prints as reproductions of paintings and prints as
autonomous inventions. The book argues that the importance of
prints as autonomous creations has been underestimated for the 17th
century. The book studies the connections between the three artists
and some forty professional engravers who were active in
17th-century Antwerp. Many biographical data on these engravers are
presented, and more than 100 prints are published for the first
time.
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