Drama and Devotion – Heemskerck′s Ecce Homo Altarpiece From Warsaw

. Woollett, et al., Alan Phenix

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Getty Publications
26 July 2012

Art & Architecture; Renaissance art; Painting & paintings

Series: Getty Publications – (Yale)

Maerten van Heemskerck (1498-1574) was one of the most active and inventive Dutch painters of the sixteenth century. Over the course of his long career, he created lively mythological scenes, dramatic altarpieces for guilds, and smaller works for wealthy individuals. Several of his religious paintings were destroyed by Protestant iconoclasts in 1566.

One of his extant masterpieces, the Ecce Homo triptych of 1544, once graced the family chapel of Jan van Drenckwaerdt, a wealthy merchant and sheriff, in Dordrecht's Augustinian church. This unusually complete triptych, with its original decorated frame, was brought from the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland, for treatment and study at the J. Paul Getty Museum as part of the Conservation Partnership program. Richly illustrated, the book documents the dramatic process of revealing the brilliance of a sixteenth-century masterpiece, and it sheds light on the artist's technique, iconography, and the role of the altarpiece in the turbulent history of the era. Drama and Devotion accompanies an exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum that opens June 5, 2012.

By: . Woollett, et al., Alan Phenix
Imprint: Getty Publications
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 253mm, Width: 228mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 524g
ISBN: 9781606061121
ISBN 10: 1606061127
Series: Getty Publications – (Yale)
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 26 July 2012
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anne T. Woollett is curator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum and author of Rembrandt in Southern California (Getty Publications, 2009). Yvonne Szafran is senior conservator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Alan Phenix is a scientist at the Getty Conservation Institute.

Reviews for Drama and Devotion – Heemskerck′s Ecce Homo Altarpiece From Warsaw

[This book] make[s] a significant contribution to the growing scholarship of this important northern master. . . . this succinct catalogue models the kind of exciting insights that can result from the collaboration between conservators and historians. Renaissance and Reformation