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As of March 2022, the Museum Hof van Busleyden will be undergoing restoration. The permanent exhibition will therefore not be accessible for some time. More information .

The Spanish Fury

Hans Bol

1590

 

 

However violent the Spanish Fury of 1572 was, Hans Bol nonetheless succeeded in depicting it on a minute scale. You almost need a looking glass to discover all the details of this scene. Bol specialised in this type of miniature: affordable paintings, using cheap media such as tempera (similar to watercolour) and paper. In so doing, he continued the tradition of the ‘water verwers’ or watercolourists, a very popular art form in sixteenth-century Mechelen.

The landscape usually plays an important role in Bol’s artworks. His subject matter and his style of representation is very similar to the work of Peter Bruegel the Elder. The landscape detail in this work is rather limited because Bol chose to highlight the many fighting figures in the foreground. The scene is identified as an event of the Spanish Fury. Bol experienced the recapture and sacking of Mechelen by Spanish troops first-hand. It also prompted him to leave his native city and move to the Dutch Republic.

 

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INFORMATION

Title: The Spanish Fury

Object type: painting

Maker: Hans Bol (1534 – 1593)

Date: 1590

Medium: tempera on parchment on wood

Dimensions: height: 30.5 cm (frame)
width: 27.5 cm (frame)
thickness: 3.7 cm (frame)
height: 8.5 cm (painting)
width: 11.5 cm (painting)

Inventory number: S1097

Origin: acquired in 2004 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Julien Daenen en Jozef Mertens (red.), Limburg in 't geweer. Oorlogsleed in het Land van Loon, tent.cat. Landcommanderij Alden Biesen, 2008: 81-82.

http://www.tento.be/OKV-artikel/hans-bol-landschap-met-jachttaferelen (14/02/2019 - 16:44h).

 

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