The Patronage of Flemish
Late Baroque Sculpture, c.1640-1710 : A Tour of Antwerp
Churches
Leon Lock
lockleon@hotmail.com
www.lowcountriessculpture.org.
The workshop was divided
in two, with a visit to the Sint-Jacobskerk and the
Sint-Pauluskerk. A visit to the churches allowed those
not familiar with the seventeenth-century religious
context in Antwerp to get a feel for the original
spaces in which the sculpture functioned. But the
workshop was primarily aimed at raising the practical,
historiographic and methodological problems in the
study of late baroque sculpture in Antwerp. As a special
aspect, patronage was used to introduce the issues,
although the field is still bare land and seriously
needs further study. The greatest needs were found
in the lack of interdisciplinary studies that allow
historians, anthropologists and art historians to
study the sculpture (e.g. the writing of patrons'
biographies must precede any discussion of their sculpture
patronage) and the placing of the Antwerp sculptural
production in a proper international context, weighing
the different sources of input on an artistic and
practical level as well as from the patrons' point
of view.
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