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Joris Van Grieken, Reproductions and the reception of early Netherlandish masters in the period 1550-1650. Supervisor: Jan Van der Stock. Co-supervisor: Jos Koldeweij (Radboud University Nijmegen).

In the Netherlands after 1550 a number of prints were created that faithfully reproduced the ‘inventions’ of early Netherlandish masters. The reproductions are often anonymous, but in some cases the name of the ‘inventor’ is explicitly mentioned on the print: Bosch, Van der Weyden, Metsys and Geertgen to St.-Jans, Lucas Van Leyden, Jan Gossaert... Although by this period their works were already outmoded in formal terms it seems a need was felt to reproduce (a few of) their paintings, without too much adaptation to the new taste, in print form. This phenomenon is of exceptional importance as regards cultural history, for it is, in embryonic form, the earliest witness to what we could call ‘art-historical’ interest.

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