Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Turning Heads: Rubens, Rembrandt and Vermeer, Hardback Book

Turning Heads: Rubens, Rembrandt and Vermeer Hardback

Hardback

Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours

Description

Unique view of the ‘tronies’ in art from the Netherlands Our fascination for faces transcends eras and cultures.

Turning Heads – Rubens, Rembrandt and Vermeer highlights a remarkable genre in painting to which little attention has so far been paid: tronies or study heads, which were intended first and foremost to depict an emotion or a character trait.

Since the model’s identity did not matter, painters could truly go to town with these heads.

Tronies were drawn and painted by some of the greatest masters: Dürer, Bruegel, Massys, Rubens, Rembrandt and Vermeer, to name just a few.

Turning Heads offers a fresh insight into a genre that is older and more varied than you might think.

This book includes dozens of illustrations plus the thoughts of contemporary artists for whom the face is essential to their own work. Catalogue for the exhibition of the same name at the KMSKA in Antwerp (from October 20, 2023 to January 21, 2024) and the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin (from February 24 to May 26, 2024).

Information

Save 26%

£45.00

£33.15

Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information