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As the first comprehensive analysis of the full lifespan and ongoing significance of the Small Landscape prints, this unique case study offers a new perspective on the trajectory of print publishing over the course of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
List of contents
Table of Contents
Cover Image
List of Color Plates
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
List of Permissions
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reading the Small Landscapes
1. Publication
Drawings into Prints
The Small Landscape Prints
"Gheconterfeyt naer dleven": Pictorial Truth and the Small Landscapes
The Cartographic Connection
The Landscapes of Hieronymus Cock
Ruined Landscapes
World Landscapes in Print
Landscapes after Pieter Bruegel and Hans Bol
Hieronymus Cock and Varietas in Landscape
Innovation in the Small Landscapes
2. Reception
Cock’s Elite Patrons and Supporters
Audiences for the Small Landscapes at Home and Abroad
Antwerp’s Hinterlands
Urban Ties to Rural Property
The Speelhuis Phenomenon
Praise of the Country House and the Country Life
The Landjuweel of 1561: Propaganda and the Popular Perception of Country Life
Rural Countryside as Cultural Ideal
3. Repetition
Antwerp, Crisis and Recovery
Philips Galle’s 1601 edition of the Small Landscapes
Theodoor Galle’s Third Edition of the Small Landscapes
"In Pictorum Gratiam": The Small Landscapes as Models for Painters in Antwerp
Prints and Painters I: Abel Grimmer
Prints and Painters II: Pieter Brueghel the Younger
The Small Landscapes Renewed and The Local Landscape Recast
4. Migration
Claes Visscher at the Sign of the Fisher
Visscher’s Copies of the Small Landscapes
Picturing Brabant in Amsterdam
Brabant and Holland: Visscher’s Visual Analogy
5. Transformation
Johannes Galle and the Business of Reproductive Print Publishing
Old Landscapes in a New Style
Importing Narrative into Landscape
Landscapes of their Time: The End of the Twelve Years’ Truce
The Small Landscapes Redux
Appendix I: Grouping of the 1559 and 1561 Small Landscapes series
Appendix II: Concordance of editions of the Small Landscapes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Alexandra Onuf is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Hartford, USA.
Summary
As the first comprehensive analysis of the full lifespan and ongoing significance of the Small Landscape prints, this unique case study offers a new perspective on the trajectory of print publishing over the course of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
