From Artless to Artful. Illustrated Histories of the Eighty Years’ War in the SeventeenthCentury Dutch Republic

The interplay between text and image was a central part of history writing on the Eighty Years’ War, known as the Dutch Revolt (1568-1648). Already during the first quarter of the seventeenth century, the still ongoing Revolt became the subject of numerous extensively illustrated history books printed in the Dutch Republic. Initially, all major illustrated Dutch history works relied heavily on copies of older news prints produced by the Cologne-based print maker Frans Hogenberg and his workshop. In the second half of the seventeenth century, however, enterprising Dutch publishers reissued thes... Mehr ...