Maarten van Heemskerck

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  • ISBN 9783775757980
  • Weight: 540g
  • Dimensions: 227 x 143mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Oct 2024
  • Publisher: Hatje Cantz
  • Publication City/Country: DE
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
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Closeup of the Renaissance artist

Between 1532 and 1536/37, the Dutch artist Maarten van Heemskerck traveled to Rome. Most of the drawings created there were made by van Heemskerck in a sketchbook that he filled with motifs as he wandered through the city, and whose original binding has been lost. Thanks to state-of-the-art technology, researchers at the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett have now largely reconstructed the original sequence of the book’s pages. This forms the basis of the present facsimile. In his fascinating studies, van Heemskerck captured the ancient sculptures, ruins, and Roman cityscapes. His sketches display a refined eye for composition and perspective as well as an extraordinary sensibility of drawing. In the sketchbook, the artist developed a space for individual experimentation, as well as a valuable trove of motifs from which he would draw throughout his life.
Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574) was one of the most famous Dutch painters of the sixteenth century. Today he is best known for his magnificent Roman drawings.

Tatjana Bartsch has been Deputy Head of the Photographic Collection at the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History since 2011.

Christien Melzer has been curator for Dutch and English art before 1800 at the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin since 2020.