ANTWERP ARTISTS AND GERMAN
PATRONS
Chair: Jeffrey
Chipps Smith, University of Texas, Austin
During the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries, Antwerp developed into
one of Europe's foremost cultural centers. The city
went from being the site of an important if regional
fair to becoming the home to a large and remarkably
diverse community of painters, sculptors, and printmakers.
This session assessed Antwerp's particular relationship
with civic, corporate, and individual patrons in the
German-speaking lands. Papers were invited that focused
on specific projects, artist-patron relationships,
marketing, issues of aesthetic preferences and the
commercializing of individual styles (such as Rubens's),
the luring of Antwerp's artists to Germany, and other
related topics.
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