Before Rubens: Titian’s Reception in the Habsburg Netherlands, c. 1550-1600

This research aims to retrace the reception of the art of Titian in the Southern Netherlands from about 1550, when his fame reached its peak at Brussels court, to about 1600, before the crystallization of his artistic “canone” and the developments of the XVIIth century that led to the so-called “Europeanisation of Venetian art”. Whereas the Titianism of the XVIIth century painters Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) and Anton van Dyck (1599-1641) had been thoroughly investigated, the timeframe immediately antecedent presents some gaps and unsolved questions. In particular, did the Flemish artists de... Mehr ...