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929.5 ARENBERG --- 378.4 <493 LEUVEN> --- 378.4 <493 LEUVEN> Universiteiten--België--LEUVEN --- Universiteiten--België--LEUVEN --- 929.5 ARENBERG Genealogie--ARENBERG --- Genealogie--ARENBERG --- Exhibitions --- Art --- Private collections --- Arenberg, House of --- Art collections --- History --- Nobility --- Art patrons --- Archives --- 378.4 <493 LEUVEN> Universities--Belgium--LEUVEN --- Universities--Belgium--LEUVEN --- Art - Private collections - Exhibitions --- Arenberg, House of - Art collections - Exhibitions --- Arenberg, House of - Portraits - Exhibitions --- Arenberg, House of - History - Exhibitions

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The Arenberg lineage belongs to the high nobility, whose estates, interests and familial connections have traditionally extended across borders. Through their prominent military role in European conflicts, the Arenbergs derived power, prowess and prestige. Their royal standing was equally reflected in the highly superior quality of their art collection, as they commissioned works from contemporaries such as Rubens, Van Dyck, and later Watteau. In the nineteenth century, the Duke of Arenberg?s newly established gallery in his palace in Brussels was renowned for its Flemish and Dutch masters, such as Brueghel and Jordaens, Rembrandt and Vermeer, and was explicitly recommended as a private museum in travel guides of the time: Vaut le voyage! This exceptional collection is also indicative of the practice of collecting art and promoting artists which has long been an integral part of the culture of nobility.

Art --- collections [object groupings] --- Arenberg, d' [Dynasty] --- d’œArenberg --- --Art --- --Belgique --- --Exposition --- --2018 --- --Louvain --- --catalogue --- --Nobility --- Nobility --- History --- Arenberg, House of. --- 929.5 ARENBERG --- 378.4 <493 LEUVEN> --- 378.4 <493 LEUVEN> Universiteiten--België--LEUVEN --- Universiteiten--België--LEUVEN --- 929.5 ARENBERG Genealogie--ARENBERG --- Genealogie--ARENBERG --- Exhibitions --- Kunst --- collecties --- Arenberg, van [Dynastie] --- Arenberg, House of --- Art collections --- Exhibitions. --- 378.4 <493 LEUVEN> Universities--Belgium--LEUVEN --- Universities--Belgium--LEUVEN --- Exposition --- Nobility - Belgium - History --- Nobility - Netherlands - History --- d’Arenberg --- Belgique --- Louvain

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Alabaster was a popular material in European sculpture, especially from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century. Its relative availability and easy to sculpt characteristic made it a highly suitable material for both large monuments and small objects, for mass production and individual works, from England to Spain and France to the Netherlands, Germany and Poland. This material has been the subject of multidisciplinary research in various European countries for several decades. The research combines material analyses with historical and art-historical approaches. This publication, made for the occasion of the large exhibition on the theme at M Leuven opening on October 14th, brings together all renown specialists on the material and sheds light on the many facets of alabaster, such as its physical and chemical properties as well as its translucency, its whiteness, its softness, and its beautiful sheen, all of which made it a popular material used in different types of sculpture from the middle ages to the baroque, all throughout Europe, ranging from bespoke tombs, funerary monuments and commissioned sculptures and altarpieces to commercially interesting formulas such as English or Mechelen alabaster reliefs.--éd.

Sculpture --- sculpture [visual works] --- alabaster [mineral] --- anno 1300-1399 --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Europe --- Sculpture en albâtre --- Monuments funéraires. --- Histoire. --- Matériaux. --- M - Museum Leuven (Louvain, Belgique). --- Artistic techniques and materials --- Medieval sculpture --- Baroque & Rococo sculpture --- Renaissance sculpture --- 7 <09> --- 73 --- 73 Beeldhouwkunst. Sculptuur --- Beeldhouwkunst. Sculptuur --- 73 Plastic arts --- Plastic arts --- 7 <09> Kunstgeschiedenis. Kunsthistorie --- Kunstgeschiedenis. Kunsthistorie --- Kunstgeschiedenis --- Religieuze kunst --- Beeldhouwkunst --- Middeleeuwen --- sculptuur. --- albasten beelden. --- 1300 - 1650. --- Europa. --- sculptuur --- albasten beelden --- 1300 - 1650 --- Europa