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Project

Peter Paul Rubens and the distribution of secret knowledge in Antwerp and Italy.

Outputs and Outcomes

Code

3F011412

Duration

01 October 2012 → 30 September 2017

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)

Promotor

Koenraad Jonckheere

Fellow

Teresa Esposito

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- Art studies and sciences

Keywords

network occult Rubens

Project description

This project will discuss the possesson, circulation and exchange of learned and secret knowledge in Antwerp and Italy, foucusing on Rubens's interaction with leading scholars of his time and his pupils. In order tot do so it will particularly focus on the books, manuscripts, gnostic gems and some antiquities belonging to the artist's collections as a representation of his attitude towards the appropriation of occult knowledge.

English

Dutch

English

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