Frans Floris (1519/20-1570): Imagining a Northern Renaissance (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History / Brill's Studies on)

Frans Floris de Vriendt radically transformed Netherlandish art. His monumental mythologies introduced a new appreciation for the heroic nude to the Low Countries and his religious art challenged standards of decorum. Born into a family of sculptors and architects, Floris refashioned his art through travel, first studying with the humanist painter Lambert Lombard in Liège and then continuing on to Italy. These experiences defined the hybridizing novelty of his art, forged by juxtaposing antique and modern, Italian and northern sources. This book maps Floris's hybrid style onto shifting conceptions of cultural, religious, and political identity on the eve of the Dutch Revolt. It explores his collaborations and rivalries, engagement with artistic theory, hierarchical workshop, and revolutionary use of print. Acknowledgements Abbreviations List of Figures Chapter 1. Introduction. Fall and Redemption: The Divine Artist Monstrous Hybridity Floris’s Renaissance The Politics of the Body The Limits of Hybridity and Drunken Fantasia Northern Diligence Recovering Floris Out of Bruegel’s Shadow Chapter 2. A Portrait of the Artist: Floris’s Biography in Context A Family of Artists Innovating the Tradition Lambert Lombard as Teacher and Theorist Ad Fontes Lombard’s “Academy” and His Grammar Chapter 3. Iter Italicum: Floris’s Italian Journey in Context The Journey to Rome Drawing in Rome Making Order of the Antique The Antique Ideal The Relief-Like Style in Motion Painting in Rome Modernamente antichi e anticamente moderni The Mobility of Style Chapter 4. Triumphal Entry: Floris’s Return to Antwerp (1546–49) Floris’s Return from Italy: Continuity and Innovation A Cosmopolitan Art Floris and the Genoese Nation: Art and Identity The Mystery of the Santa Margherita Triptych The Entry of 1549 and the Arch of the Genoese Nation Schiappalaria and Floris’s Mythological Vocabulary Afterglow of the Triumph Chapter 5. The Floris Workshop: Practice, Theory, Ritual Representing a Liberal Art The Artist in his Studio The Workshop Experience: Participation and Etiquette Building a Team The Floris Signature Paradox Signatures Under Scrutiny The Rise of the Print Victoria Drawing in the Workshop Fall of Phaeton Chapter 6. Portraits and Head Studies The Head Study and Its Uses The Model From Studio to Cabinet Contextualizing the Head Study The Portrait The Model Family Chapter 7. Experiments in Religious Art: Style and Audience Religious Art and the Relief-Like Style Ut pictura poesis: Floris’s Tabula Cebetis Imitatio Christi and the Northern Past Granvelle and the Conflicts of Patronage A Crucifixion for Granvelle Imitatio Mariae Alone Among Women The Crucifixion Altarpiece for Delft Altarpieces for Zoutleeuw Afterlife of a Sacred Image Chapter 8. Ardens amator artium: Floris, Niclaes Jonghelinck, and the Nature of Netherlandish Art Jonghelinck: The Man and the Myth The Labors of Hercules and The Liberal Arts The Collection in Print The Ideology of the Suburban Villa Jacques Jonghelinck’s Bacchus and The Seven Planets Enter Bruegel A Northern Pastoral Jonghelinck and an Emerging Discourse on Netherlandish Art Pictorial Babel Chapter 9. Losing Faith: Floris’s Allegory of the Trinity Questioning Faith in Style Gathering the Faithful Off the Altar Grace Without Mary A Prophetic Message “Even as the hen gathered her chicks” A Performance of Style Against “Rome” Chapter 10. Iconoclasm and Poesie A New Mobility of Images Venus Refracted Venus in Vulcan’s Forge Titian in the North The Poesie Danaë and the Golden Rain Viewing Distances Susanna and the Elders The Beauty of Print The Story of Pluto and Proserpina Chapter 11. Humanæ Societati Necessaria: Frans Floris’s Vision for the Arts Floris’s Palace and his Public An Order of License Constructing “Raffaello fiammingo” The Artist’s House The Artist’s Inspiration The Tools of the Artist The Virtue of Diligence The Virtue of the Northern Artist Contested Legacy Chapter 12. Coda Altar and Cabinet Rupture and Continuity in the Southern Netherlands The Rebel Angels Rise Again Death of the Artist Adoration of the Shepherds Restoration and Redemption Appendix A. Mentions of Floris in Literary Sources Appendix B. Drawings after the Antique attributed to Floris and recorded in the lost Album Dansaert Appendix C. Text and Music of the chanson “Le Cruel Mars” Appendix D. Timeline of Floris’s Chief Dated Works in Historical Context Checklist of Paintings Checklist of Drawings Checklist of Prints Notes Bibliography Index Frans Floris de Vriendt radically transformed Netherlandish art. His monumental mythologies introduced a new appreciation for the heroic nude to the Low Countries and his religious art challenged standards of decorum. Born into a family of sculptors and architects, Floris refashioned his art through travel, first studying with the humanist painter Lambert Lombard in Liege and then continuing on to Italy. These experiences defined the hybridizing novelty of his art, forged by juxtaposing antique and modern, Italian and Northern sources. This book maps Floris's hybrid style onto shifting conceptions of cultural, religious, and political identity on the eve of the Dutch Revolt. It explores his collaborations and rivalries, engagement with artistic theory, hierarchical workshop, and revolutionary use of print Frans Floris De Vriendt Was Among The Most Celebrated Netherlandish Artists Of The Sixteenth-century, More Renowned In His Day Than Bruegel The Elder. This Book Relates Floris's Hybridizing Art To The Social, Religious, And Political Crises Reshaping His Society.