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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.
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.
Price: $189.00
Pages: 526
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
Publication Date:
21 February 2019
ISBN: 9789004380462
Format: Hardcover
“Until now, Maarten van Heemskerck's hundreds of Roman drawings have been used chiefly by archaeologists and architectural historians to discern the critical early stages of building St Peter's and excavating ancient imperial ruins. To the rescue, Arthur Di Furia examines this entire corpus of drawings for what they contributed to van Heemskerck's later creations and to an emerging Netherlandish vision of antiquity in the sixteenth century. As the first study dedicated to a comprehensive cultural interpretation of both van Heemskerck and Rome, this fine tome uncovers a critical turning-point in both histories.”
Larry Silver, Farquhar Professor of Art History, emeritus, University of Pennsylvania
“The book is filled with excellent reproductions of paintings, prints, and drawings. In the case of the drawings, they allow readers to see Heemskerck’s remarkable skill and range. Arthur DiFuria has written an important study of Heemskerck and the way he understood the potent symbolism of Roman ruins: in providing a view of the partial destruction of Rome’s glorious past, the author allows us to witness what remains and to reinvent Rome through memory, just as Heemskerck himself did in the many works of art that this book documents and contextualizes.”
Sharon Gregory, St. Francis Xavier University. In: CAA Reviews (June 7, 2021).
“This fine monograph […] has been edited impeccably, with meticulous reproductions of Van Heemskerck's drawings and many of his paintings. A great help to the reader are the cuts from the drawings reproduced in the margins of the main text.”
Eric M. Moormann, Radboud University. In: Babesch, vol. 95 (2020), pp. 275–277.
“This book constitutes a major contribution to our understanding of Van Heemskerck's depiction of ancient Roman ruins.”
Guido Rebecchini, Courtauld Institute of Art. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Summer 2021), pp. 583–585.
“No aspect of van Heemskerck's life and work stays in the dark. Apart from being an exhaustively documented study where no nuance is lost, the publication is also outstanding for its narrative qualities; the text is not only erudite but also elegant.”
Natalia Agapiou, in: Roma nel Rinascimento (2019), pp. 28–29.
Larry Silver, Farquhar Professor of Art History, emeritus, University of Pennsylvania
“The book is filled with excellent reproductions of paintings, prints, and drawings. In the case of the drawings, they allow readers to see Heemskerck’s remarkable skill and range. Arthur DiFuria has written an important study of Heemskerck and the way he understood the potent symbolism of Roman ruins: in providing a view of the partial destruction of Rome’s glorious past, the author allows us to witness what remains and to reinvent Rome through memory, just as Heemskerck himself did in the many works of art that this book documents and contextualizes.”
Sharon Gregory, St. Francis Xavier University. In: CAA Reviews (June 7, 2021).
“This fine monograph […] has been edited impeccably, with meticulous reproductions of Van Heemskerck's drawings and many of his paintings. A great help to the reader are the cuts from the drawings reproduced in the margins of the main text.”
Eric M. Moormann, Radboud University. In: Babesch, vol. 95 (2020), pp. 275–277.
“This book constitutes a major contribution to our understanding of Van Heemskerck's depiction of ancient Roman ruins.”
Guido Rebecchini, Courtauld Institute of Art. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Summer 2021), pp. 583–585.
“No aspect of van Heemskerck's life and work stays in the dark. Apart from being an exhaustively documented study where no nuance is lost, the publication is also outstanding for its narrative qualities; the text is not only erudite but also elegant.”
Natalia Agapiou, in: Roma nel Rinascimento (2019), pp. 28–29.
Arthur J. DiFuria, Ph.D. (2008, Delaware), is Savannah College of Art and Design’s Chair of Art History. He has published books and articles on early modern Netherlandish art, including Genre Imagery in Early Modern Northern Europe: New Perspectives (Ashgate / Routledge, 2016).