This book presents the first sustained study of the stunning drawings of Roman ruins by Haarlem artist Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574; in Rome, 1532 – ca. 1537). In three parts, Arthur J. DiFuria describes Van Heemskerck’s pre-Roman training, his time in Rome, and his use his ruinscapes for the art he made during his forty-year post-Roman phase. Building on the methods of his predecessors, Van Heemskerck mastered a dazzling array of methods to portray Rome in compelling fashion. Upon his return home, his Roman drawings sustained him for the duration of his prolific career. 'Maarten van Heemskerck’s Rome' concludes with the first ever catalog to bring together all of Van Heemskerck’s ruin drawings in state-of-the-art digital photography.
Author(s): Arthur J. DiFuria
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 287. Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 31
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 550
City: Leiden
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Illustrations
Introduction
Maarten van Heemskerck’s Rome
Drawings in Berlin and Scattered to the Four Winds
The Historicized Van Heemskerck and Karel Van Mander’s 'Schilder-Boeck'
Van Heemskerck’s Drawings and Memory
Van Heemskerck and the Cult of Ruins
Part 1. Imagining the Eternal: Maarten van Heemskerck Before Rome
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Possibility of a pre-Roman Maarten van Heemskerck
Collection, Invention, and Netherlandish Antiquity c. 1510–25
The Status of the Ruin in Netherlandish Visual Culture c. 1510–25
The Roman Journey’s Status in the Netherlands and Van Heemskerck’s Road to the Eternal City
Chapter 2. he Ruin Landscape in Jan van Scorel’s orkshop
Prototype, Imitation, Emulation, Invention
Van Scorel, Van Heemskerck, and the Ruin
Leaving Van Scorel’s Workshop: Landscape and the 'Wanderjahr' Drawing
Part 2. Drawing the Eternal: Van Heemskerck in Rome
Introduction
Chapter 3. Drawing Ruins in Post-Sack Rome
Rome’s Post-Sack Milieu
Drawing, Collecting, and the 'Chaos of Memory'
Ruins in Post-Sack Rome
Raphael and Van Heemskerck’s Ruinscapes
Charles V’s Triumphal Procession
Chapter 4. Memory and Maarten van Heemskerck’s Eternal Eye
Discovering the Vestiges of Ancient Rome in the Frame
The Compelling Space and the Epochal Time of Van Heemskerck’s Ruinscapes
Artistry and Roman Topography as Memory
Chapter 5. The Copious Hand
An Abundant Technique
Van Heemskerck’s Pre-Roman Technical Inheritance: Pen and Ink Hatching, Netherlandish Realism
Towards Finish: The Flexibility of Van Heemskerck’s Pen and Ink Process
Ink Washes, Chalk, Texture: Performance
Mimesis, Performance, and Function
Part 3. Remembering the Eternal: Van Heemskerck After Rome
Introduction
Chapter 6. Invention, Collecting, Antiquarianism
Reinventing Rome: 'Panorama with the Abduction of Helen Amidst the Wonders of the World'
Memory and Invention After Rome: Van Heemskerck’s Drawings in the Netherlands
Van Heemskerck’s Inventions After the Antique: Means and Modes
'In Reminiscor': Reading the Ruins
Chapter 7. Antiquity in 1553: Ruins and Self-Fashioning
A Summa of the Self
Coming of Age: The Signature Ruin and Netherlandish Antiquarianism
Van Heemskerck’s Drawings and Hieronymus Cock’s 'Præcipua aliquot Romanae Antiquitatis Ruinarum'
'Self-Portrait before the Colosseum’s Antiquarian Audience'
Chapter 8. Regnum, Reform, and Ruin
Van Heemskerck and the Destruction of Art in the 'Age of Art'
Before the 'Beeldenstorm', After the Antique
1569: The Rhetoric of Ruination
Epilogue.
After Van Heemskerck, After the Antique: A Continuum of Pictorial Memory
Part 4. A Catalog of Maarten van Heemskerck’s Roman Ruin Drawings
A Note on the Catalog
In and Around the Forum
Forum Romanum
Capitoline Hill
Palatine Hill
Arch of Titus
Colosseum
Arch of Constantine
Septizonium
Forum Nervae
On the Quirinal Hill
Frontespizio di Nerone
Baths of Diocletian
Trofei di Mario
San Lorenzo Fuori le Mure
On the Tiber’s East Bank and On the Interior
Porticus Octaviae
Forum Boarium
Piazza del Popolo
Pantheon
In and Around the Vatican
Banchi and Borgo
St. Peter’s
Belvedere
Near the South Wall
Baths of Caracalla
San Giovanni in Laterano
Temple of Minerva Medica
Porta Maggiore
Pyramid of Cestius
Further Afield: Otium
Tivoli
Villa Madama
Panorama, Collection, Fragment, Fantasia
Broad-View Panoramas
Sculpture Collections, Gardens, and Cortile
Architectural Fragments
Fantasia
Single Sheets with Multiple Copies after Maarten van Heemskerck: The so-called De Vos Sketchbook
Deattributions
Deattributions from Maarten Van Heemskerck
A Deattributed Group of Drawings in Berlin: 'Anonymous C'
A Brief Explanation and List of Previous Deattributions
Notes
References
Index
