Project

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

Code
3F011412
Duration
01 October 2012 → 30 September 2017
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Humanities
    • 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.