Lubomír Konečný – Štěpán Vácha – Beket Bukovinská (eds.)
The publication “Hans von Aachen in Context” consists of papers presented at an international conference organised by the Centre for Research into the Art and Culture of the Age of Rudolf II which took place at the Institute for Art History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, on 22-25 September 2010, to accompany the exhibition "Hans von Aachen (1552-1615): Court Artist in Europe". A total of thirty contributions by researchers from seven European countries, the USA, and Canada, examine from a variety of viewpoints the question of the links between Hans von Aachen and the Italian milieu, and his significance as a leading figure on the Central European painting scene around the year 1600. The authors of individual papers also deal with the influence of von Aachen’s work on his contemporaries and successors, and the importance of the commercial aspect of the artistic trade, including various issues relating to the network of patrons, artists’ agents, and artists in Central Europe, of which von Aachen was a part. In a separate section, “Dissertations in Progress”, young researchers from European and Canadian universities have had the opportunity to present their projects. At the end of the book there is a complete bibliography of Eliška Fučíková, a leading researcher in the field of Central European Renaissance and Mannerist painting and drawing, to whom the volume is dedicated.
The book has been published with the support of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and the Czech-German Future Fund.
First edition, English, German, 280 p., 194 colour and black-and-white illustrations, Prague 2012
ISBN 978-80-86890-42-5
