Family ties
art production and kinship patterns in the early modern Low Countries
Gedrukt boek
Description of the meaning of the extended family, as an institution, for the production and distribution of art in the early modern Low Countries. Topics include education, investment, accommodation, cooperation, competition, productivity and management. Contains the following contributions: Kinship and Network in Karel van Mander; Why Social Network Analysis Might Be Relevant for Art Historians: a Management Perspective; Can Tapestry Research Benefit from Economic Sociology and Social Network Analysis?; Uncertainty, Family Ties and Derivative Painting in Seventeenth-Century Antwerp; Dutch Family Ties: Painter Families in Seventeenth-Century Holland; On Noble Artists and Poor Painters: Networking Artists in Renaissance Bruges; From Nicolaas to Constantijn: the Francken Family and their Rich Artistic Heritage (c. 1550–1717); The De Herdt (De Harde) Family in the Service of Emperor Leopold in Vienna; Rubens & Son; The Steenwyck Paintings, Products of Family Enterprise; Going their Separate Ways: the Artistic Inclinations and Paths of David Teniers I, II and III; Justus van Egmont (1602–1674) and his Workshop in Paris; ‘Siet wat een vrucht dat baert hen kercken te vercieren’. Family, Agency and Networks of Patronage: towards a Mapping of the Revival of the Family Chapel in Seventeenth-Century Antwerp; Lucas and Cornelis de Wael: their Family Network in Antwerp and Beyond.