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The research focuses on the relationship between geometrical architectural design knowledge and the visual arts in the Low Countries between 1480 and 1560. This crucial period was a turning point between tradition and innovation when we notice a greater involvement of other professional groups, such as painters, printmakers, and sculptors in the architectural design practice. Central to this research is the various internal socio-economical ...

The article explores the development of the phenomenon of the 'painter-architect during the first half of the sixteenth century in the Low Countries. This phenomenom is often explained by radical changes towards the position of the architect due to the influence of humanist thinking of Vitruvius, Alberti and Serlio. In this article other trajectories are explored in which the formation of the painter-architect is a much more complex internal ...