Netherlandish artists and the marketing of "Flemishness" in Madrid

Abstract: Examining North and South Netherlandish immigrant artists careers in seventeenth-century Madrid, this article asks, first, did these immigrants as well as Spaniards differentiate between North and South Netherlandish identity? Second, did the kings Burgundian guard facilitate the creation of a shared Netherlandish identity? Third, do these immigrants works reveal their marketing strategies? After considering semantic and historical clues to the construction of a Netherlandish identity, this paper investigates how Netherlandish immigrant painters and their children used floral and fru... Mehr ...