The Allure of Rome: Maarten van Heemskerck Draws the City - Hardcover

 
9783777443447: The Allure of Rome: Maarten van Heemskerck Draws the City

Synopsis

In 1532, the Dutch painter Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574) travelled from Haarlem to Rome. With pencil in hand he discovered Antiquity and the Renaissance. His remarkable drawings lead us in masterly pictures on a journey through time through 16th-century Rome.

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About the Author

Tatjana Bartsch has been the deputy head of the photographic collection of the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institute for Art History since 2011.

Since 2020, Christien Melzer has been the curator of Dutch and English art before 1800 at the Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin.

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In 1532, the Dutch painter Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574) travelled from Haarlem to Rome. With pencil in hand he discovered Antiquity and the Renaissance. His remarkable drawings lead us in masterly pictures on a journey through time through 16th-century Rome.

He was everywhere, from the Colosseum to the Forum Romanum to the Piazza del Campidoglio. Maarten van Heemskerck was one of the first artists from north of the Alps to embark on a trip to Rome purely for the sake of art. His sketches show his

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