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In the fourth century the idea arose that the Cross on which Christ was crucified had been found by Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine. Thus began a legend that would grow and flourish throughout the Middle Ages and cause the diffusion of countless splinters of holy wood. And where there is wood, there was once a tree. Could it be that the Cross was made from that most noble species, the Tree of Life? So, gathering characters along the way, the legend evolved into a tale that stretches from the Creation to the End of Time. A Heritage of Holy Wood is the first reconstruction of the iconographic and literary tradition of the Legend of the True Cross. Its broad scope encompasses relic cults, pilgrimages, travellers' tales and the Tree of Life and involves Church Fathers, crusader kings, Teutonic Knights and mendicant orders, all of which influenced the legend's depiction from its earliest representation in manuscripts, reliquaries and altarpieces, to the great monumental cycles of the high Middle Ages. If the holy wood was the medium of medieval memory, A Heritage of Holy Wood reveals the growth rings of fifteen centuries of imagery.

Holy Cross --- Art, Byzantine. --- Art, Medieval. --- Legends --- Art [Byzantine ] --- Art [Medieval ] --- Art byzantin --- Art médiéval --- Byzantijnse kunst --- Byzantine art --- Kunst [Byzantijnse ] --- Kunst [Middeleeuwse ] --- Medieval art --- Middeleeuwse kunst --- Iconography --- Christian church history --- Christian special devotions --- anno 500-1499 --- 091.31:7.04 --- 246 --- Academic collection --- 091.31:7.04 Verluchte handschriften: iconografie --- Verluchte handschriften: iconografie --- Christelijke kunst en symbolisme --- Religion Art in Christianity --- Art, Byzantine --- Art, Medieval --- Sainte Croix --- Art médiéval --- Art --- Légendes --- Christian art and symbolism --- Cross --- Feast of the Cross --- Art. --- Holy Cross - Legends - Art.

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"Apart from a handful of art historians no sane person has ever heard of the Brussels painter Hendrick De Clerck (1560-1630). Nevertheless, De Clerck was a contemporary of Peter Paul Rubens and like Rubens he worked for the Archdukes Albert and Isabella. But while Rubens has gone down in history as an artistic trailblazor and painting powerhouse, Hendrick De Clerck has quietly faded into oblivion. Yet the subtly coded, vibrantly coloured pictures that De Clerck paints for Albert and Isabella are political propoganda of the highest order. In creating a mode of archducal representation that could help to gain an empire, the sky is quite literally the limit. De Clerck represents Isabella as wise Minerva, chaste Diana, the Virgin Mary. And that's nothing compared to her husband, for in De Clerck's paintings Albert is transformed int the sun god Apollo and even into Jesus Christ himself. Hendrick De Clerck's mastery of ingenious pictorial stragegy made him a leading palyer in one of most ambitious projects history has evern seen. For those who know how to read them, his paintings tell a story of power, political promises, and grandiose ambition. Most of all, they are supreme examples of image-building. For as the Archdukes were well aware, even as a monarch you're only as important as you make yourself."

Painting --- political art --- Clerck, de, Hendrik --- Albert & Isabella [Archdukes] --- Painters --- Painting, Belgian --- Peintres --- Peinture belge --- Biography --- Biographies --- Clerck, Hendrik de, --- Art --- Painting, Flemish --- Political aspects --- De Clerck, Hendrick --- Criticism and interpretation --- Isabel Clara Eugenia --- Art patronage --- Albert --- Flanders (Belgium) --- Painting [Flemish ] --- 16th century --- 17th century --- Belgium --- History --- Art - Political aspects - Flanders --- Painting, Flemish - Belgium - Brussels - 17th century --- Painting, Flemish - Belgium - Brussels - 16th century --- Clerck, Hendrik de, - approximately 1560-1630

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2016 marks exactly 500 years since the English humanist and statesman Thomas More published in the city Leuven his world-famous book Utopia. Leuven is celebrating this milestone with a major city festival featuring exhibitions, street art, film, music, theatre, dance, literature, lectures and city walks. The cornerstone is the international, art historical exhibition 'In Search of Utopia' at M - Museum Leuven. The festival will officially start on Monday, 26 September 2016 after a festive opening weekend on 24 and 25 September and will end on 17 January 2017. In the book 'In Search of Utopia? the reader is introduced to the world of More and his friends, with the ideals and dreams of the times. The desire of far-away horizons and the cobweb of new sciences that patiently layed upon the reality. Magnificent works of the 15th- and 16th Century artists: Quinten Metsijs, Hans Holbein, Jan Gossaert en Albrecht Dürer are being brought together in this exciting and intriguing story. It shows in an unexceeded way the imagination of an ideal world.

Art de la Renaissance -- Europe du Nord --- --Utopias in art --- Utopies dans l'art --- Exhibitions. --- Expositions --- More, Thomas, --- Exhibitions --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- utopias --- Science --- Iconography --- History of civilization --- Utopia --- More, Thomas --- 873.4 --- 094 MORE, THOMAS --- 82-313.2 --- 929 MORE, THOMAS --- KUL --- Academic collection --- Humanistisch Latijnse literatuur --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--MORE, THOMAS --- Utopische roman --- Biografie. Genealogie. Heraldiek--MORE, THOMAS --- 82-313.2 Utopische roman --- 873.4 Humanistisch Latijnse literatuur --- 929 MORE, THOMAS Biografie. Genealogie. Heraldiek--MORE, THOMAS --- C3 --- geschiedenis --- humanisme --- Kunst en cultuur --- Utopias in art --- Art [Renaissance ] --- Europe [Northern ] --- 873.4 Humanist Latin literature --- Humanist Latin literature --- Utopias in art - Exhibitions --- More, Thomas, - Saint, - 1478-1535 - Exhibitions --- More, Thomas, - Saint, - 1478-1535