Hiëronymus Janssens (1624-1693), the Antwerp à la Mode Painter: Fashion and Dance in Southern Netherlandish Genre Painting, 1645-1685'. KU Leuven
Summary
This dissertation focuses on the genre paintings by the Antwerp artist Hiëronymus Janssens (1624-1693). Janssens is by far the only painter from the second half of the seventeenth century in the Southern Netherlands who specialised in the depiction of dance, corporality, music and leisure of high society. In contrast to his fellow Northern Netherlandish genre painters, there has barely been any scholarly attention paid ...