Maarten Van Heemskerck's Rome - Antiquity, Memory, and the Cult of Ruins

The first comprehensive analysis of the artist's Roman ruin drawings. Three parts take us from Van Heemskerck's training to his Roman stay and his post-Roman phase. A catalog presents Van Heemskerck's drawings in up-to-date digital photographs.

About the author

Arthur J. DiFuria, Ph.D. (2008, Delaware), is Savannah College of Art and Design's Chair of Art History. He has published books and articles on early modern Netherlandish art, including Genre Imagery in Early Modern Northern Europe: New Perspectives (Ashgate / Routledge, 2016).

Product details

• Authors: Arthur J Di Furia, Arthur J. Di Furia
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.02.2019
• EAN: 9789004380462
• ISBN: 978-90-04-38046-2
• No. of pages: 552
• Dimensions: 177 mm x 251 mm x 38 mm
• Weight: 1547 g
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectua
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works