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ALMA art meets artefacts

ALMA links these depictions of pre-industrial objects, dating from the late Middle Ages to the nineteenth century, in paintings and prints to examples of similar material objects. The ALMA database can be searched extensively for the relation between object and depiction. Research results are published in the ALMA showcase.

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Prints on the wall – images as artefacts

author dr. Peter van der Coelen

ALMA links images to artefacts. Most of these images are prints, about two thousand woodcuts, engravings and etchings, the majority of them made in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Most of the prints come from the Netherlands, but Italian, German and French examples are also included.

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Stoneware in David Teniers the Younger’s The Lute Player

author Megan Lynn Donnelly

Genre painting, paintings depicting people in their everyday lives, enjoyed great popularity in the Low Countries during the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Many painters depicted interiors full of people taking part in many daily activities.

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