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The Farmers’ Tower – Story of an Icon

€59

Hannibal Books 2024 NL EN

The Farmers’ Tower and its intriguing history revealed in new stories and images never seen before Since 1931, the Farmers’ Tower has served as a majestic landmark on Antwerp’s skyline. As Europ ...

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Groundbreakers – Remarkable Maps from the Low Countries, 1500–1900

€60

Hannibal Books 2024 NL

A fascinating immersion into the cartography and history of the Low Countries An old map does not only represent a geographical situation; it also embodies a veritable journey of discovery through wor ...

Phoebus Focus

Amorphous Figures

€2250

Naomi Meulemans

Hannibal Books 2024 NL

Who was the surrealist Chilean artist Roberto Matta (1911-2022)? What were his roots, how did he evolve as an artist and what place does he occupy in surrealism? How should we understand this work, an ...

Phoebus Focus

The Holy Family in Nazareth

€2250

Katharina Van Cauteren

Hannibal Books 2023 NL

The date: 16 September 2016. The place: Peru, where, in the church of San Sebastián in a suburb of Cuzco, one electrical wire touches another. When the fire is finally extinguished around midday, som ...

Phoebus Focus

Vase of Flowers with Vanitas Symbols

€2250

Sven Van Dorst

Hannibal Books 2023 NL EN

Let yourself be captivated by the floral splendour of Vase of Flowers with Vanitas Symbols by Jan Davidsz. De Heem (1606-1684). De Heem belongs to the canon of Dutch Baroque painting and astonishes ev ...

Phoebus Focus

Portrait of Johannes Gansacker I

€2250

Leen Kelchtermans

Hannibal Books 2023 NL

This Phoebus Focus tells the remarkable story of Johannes I Gansacker (1592-1664) and the remarkable history of his portrait. It allows us to interpret Gansacker as one of the many young, ambitious en ...

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Cobra – A Pictorial and Poetic Revolution

€60

Hannibal Books 2023 NL

A magnificent introduction to the Cobra art movement With French as its working language, Cobra was pretty much the last truly European movement within Modernism. The group’s anarchic story is not j ...

Phoebus Focus

Kursaal and Sea Dyke

€2250

Hannibal Books 2023 NL EN

A lone walker at dawn in Ostend, Léon Spilliaert (1881-1946) is entranced by the bleak and ominous desolation of the promenade. A fascination with spatiality and the expression of infinity underlie t ...

Phoebus Focus

Head-Baker

€2250

Wendy Wauters

Hannibal Books 2023 NL EN

The Phoebus Foundation’s collection includes an unusual painting which has an equally unusual title: Head-Baker. A baker’s servant, frozen in motion, with his cleaver raised high in the air, ...

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Fools & Folly in Flemish Art

€55

Larry Silver

Hannibal Books 2022 NL EN

In praise of folly: on the fool and jester in Flemish art According to medieval theologians, faith is a deadly serious business. Humour and virtue are irreconcilable, because laughter is uncontrollabl ...

Phoebus Focus

Susanna and the Elders

€2250

Katharina Van Cauteren

Hannibal Books 2022 NL EN

In this Phoebus Focus edition, Katharina Van Cauteren, chief of staff at The Phoebus Foundation, made an analysis of the various meanings and motifs behind Hendrick De Clerck’s depiction of the ...

Phoebus Focus

War Lace

€2250

Wendy Wiertz

Hannibal Books 2022

Did you know that lace production in Belgium experienced an unprecedented boom during the First World War? It seems almost contradictory, but during the Great War, lace-makers were producing more lace ...

Phoebus Focus

Flowers in a Vase with a Clump of Cyclamen and Precious Stones

€2250

Sven Van Dorst

Hannibal Books 2022

Flowers power! Daffodils, pink roses with heads bowed, an orange lily, flaming tulips, bright blue irises, … The variety of flowers and the bright colours are magnificent and appear to bur ...

OKV

At Home with Jordaens

€10

Leen Kelchtermans

Openbaar Kunstbezit Vlaanderen 2021 NL

Especially for the At Home with Jordaens exhibition at the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem, The Phoebus Foundation published an OKV theme issue about Jacob Jordaens. Get to know this Antwerp superstar a ...

Phoebus Focus

Portrait of Henricus Liberti

€2250

Timothy De Paepe

Hannibal Books 2022

The Antwerp Baroque portrait specialist Anthony Van Dyck painted Henricus Liberti in around 1627-1632 as a self-assured and talented musician, who was well aware of his worth. Today, just a handful of ...

Phoebus Focus

Pleurants

€2250

Matthew Reeves

Hannibal Books 2022

Discover the secrets of the alabaster Pleurants on the tomb monument of Jean de Berry (1340-1416).

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3500 Years of Textile Art

€60

Lannoo 2009 NL

A standard book on the history of ancient textile art.

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Art from Latin America

€75

Laurens Dhaenens

Lannoo 2015 NL

Discover Latin American masterpieces from The Phoebus Foundation collection.

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The Birth of Capitalism

€45

Lannoo 2016 NL

The vision of an entrepreneur and an art historian on the development of the Southern Netherlands during the Middle Ages

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Politics as Painting

€125

Katharina Van Cauteren

Lannoo 2016 NL

Get to know Hendrick de Clerck, court painter of the Flemish Archdukes Albrecht and Isabella and visual storyteller.

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Golden Times

€125

Lannoo 2016 NL

Go on a journey through the fascinating Middle Ages and discover masterpieces from The Phoebus Foundation collection.

OKV

Blind Date

€10

Openbaar Kunstbezit Vlaanderen 2020 NL

This OKV theme issue appeared in the spring of 2020 for the occasion of the portrait exhibition The Bold and the Beautiful (2020).The booklet guides you through a few subjects that appeal to the imagi ...

OKV

Lace is More!

€10

Openbaar Kunstbezit Vlaanderen 2019 NL

This OKV theme issue introduces the reader to the underexposed history of lace.

OKV

The Birth of Capitalism

€10

Openbaar Kunstbezit Vlaanderen 2016 NL

The Birth of Capitalism tells the story of the new man, who developed in Flanders from 1200 onwards.

OKV

Coming Home

€10

Openbaar Kunstbezit Vlaanderen 2017 NL

This OKV issue brings to vivid life the broad cultural context of the Flemish belle époque and the years between the twentieth century’s two world wars. It’s a book about Symbolism, Impre ...

OKV

Vossen

€10

Openbaar Kunstbezit Vlaanderen 2018 NL

Those who say Reynaert, spontaneously think of the mischievous villain with his sharp tongue who count on a lot of sympathy. VOSSEN tells the story of Reynaert the fox and his relation with the Belgia ...

Phoebus Focus

Portrait of Emperor Servius Sulpicius Galba

€2250

Nils Büttner

Hannibal Books 2021

Servius Sulpicius Galba was a Roman emperor who overthrew and succeeded Nero during the Year of the Four Emperors, 68-69 AD. In this ‘Phoebus Focus’ Nils Büttner places the extraordinary emperor ...

Phoebus Focus

Saint Begga

€2250

Leen Kelchtermans

Hannibal Books 2021

In St Begga Leen Kelchtermans examines strong, religious women and their devotion, and Catholic and dynastic displays of power. She whisks the reader away to between the seventh and seventeenth centur ...

Phoebus Focus

Patershol in Ghent

€2250

Inge Misschaert

Hannibal Books 2021

Servius Sulpicius Galba was a Roman emperor who overthrew and succeeded Nero during the Year of the Four Emperors, 68-69 AD. In this ‘Phoebus Focus’ Nils Büttner places the extraordinary emperor ...

Phoebus Focus

Stoning of Saint Paul and Scourging of Saint Paul

€2250

Hannibal Books 2021

In this edition of 'Phoebus Focus', no less than three specialists examine two of the sketches that Baroque master Abraham Van Diepenbeeck made for the stained-glass windows of the Antwerp St. Paul's ...

Phoebus Focus

Portrait of a Gentleman

€2250

Lara Yeager-Crasselt

Hannibal Books 2021

Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens… Antwerp is famous because of her many talented artists. But what about Brussels?

Phoebus Focus

The Lamentation of the Dying Mary Magdalene

€2250

Lieke Wijnia

Hannibal Books 2020

In this Phoebus Focus edition, Lieke Wijnia takes the reader through the history of Saint Mary Magdalene and the little-known artist Melchior de la Mars. Moreover, the author holds up a mirror.

Phoebus Focus

Study of a Young Woman

€2250

Hannibal Books 2020

This painting of a Young Woman by the Brussels artist Michaelina Wautier appears at first sight to be an ordinary study. Nothing could be further from the truth! A look in detail and behind the layers ...

Phoebus Focus

Portrait of Elisabeth Jordaens

€2250

Leen Kelchtermans

Hannibal Books 2020

Who was Elisabeth Jordaens? When did her father, the famous Jacob Jordaens, portray her and why does she look like a peasant woman?

Phoebus Focus

Hairnets, Hoods and Caps

€2250

Petra Linscheid

Hannibal Books 2020

Archaeologist Petra Linscheid introduces the unique collection of historical Egyptian headgear from The Phoebus Foundation. These rare pieces cover more than a 1000 year of fashion history.

Phoebus Focus

Descrittione di Tutti i Paesi Bassi

€2250

Dina Aristodemo

Hannibal Books 2020

This Phoebus Focus explores Guicciardini's masterpiece and its fascinating history. The reader gets a taste of the many themes that the Italian authors address in his magnum opus.

Phoebus Focus

A Sailor and a Woman Embracing

€2250

Nils Büttner

Hannibal Books 2020

Rubens expert Nils Büttner analyses the most intimate work of the Antwerp pictor doctus in the collection of The Phoebus Foundation. He discovers the many similarities with other works of art by the ...

Phoebus Focus

Bird

€2250

Naomi Meulemans

Hannibal Books 2019

In this Phoebus Focus restorer Naomi Meulemans analyses the work of CoBrA artist Karel Appel. Like no one else, she can extract secrets from the materiality of the paint.

Phoebus Focus

Biblia Regia Printed on Vellum

€2250

Dirk Imhof

Hannibal Books 2020

In 2018, The Phoebus Foundation acquired one of Christopher Plantin's twelve royal bibles, which he printed on parchment.

Phoebus Focus

Madonna and Child

€2250

Marjan Debaene

Hannibal Books 2019

In this Phoebus Focus, sculpture specialist Marjan Debaene unfolds the forgotten history of the the Jan Borman and his illustrious family. His grandiose statue of the Madonna and Child forms the start ...

Phoebus Focus

Keep Your Mouth Shut

€2250

Larry Silver

Hannibal Books 2020

‘Mondeken toe’ shows that the boundary between paintings and texts is wafer-thin and that the highest wisdom is sometimes a foolish game.

Phoebus Focus

Portrait of a Young Woman

€2250

Leen Kelchtermans

Hannibal Books 2018

In this Phoebus Focus edition, Leen Kelchtermans undresses the young woman represented in this artwork, without damaging her honor.

Phoebus Focus

Elegant Company in a Garden

€2240

Timothy De Paepe

Hannibal Books 2019

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In this publication, Timothy De Paepe peels the layers of a late sixteenth-century scene, as if it were an onion.

Phoebus Focus

Apollo on His Sun Chariot

€2250

Hans Vlieghe

Hannibal Books 2019

This Phoebus Focus highlights an artwork with the depiction of Phoebus Apollo by the baroque master Jan Boeckhorst.

Phoebus Focus

Attack on Travellers

€2250

Leen Kelchtermans

Hannibal Books 2019

Peter Snayers specialized in painting scenes of war and combat. In addition to large canvases that glorified military campaigns, he also depicted the ordinary man or woman, plagued by the daily realit ...

Phoebus Focus

Roses, Narcissi and Tulips in a Glass Vase

€2250

Sven Van Dorst

Hannibal Books 2018

In the 17th century, the Jesuit Daniel Seghers must have been some kind of pop star.

Phoebus Focus

The Mere-Monster of Lake Tagua Tagua

€2250

Katharina Van Cauteren

Hannibal Books 2018

The Mere-Monster of Lake Tagua Tagua is an intriguing and enigmatic artwork from the collection of The Phoebes Foundation. This absurd animal is the synthesis of more than 300 years of image building. ...

Phoebus Focus

Reynaert the Fox

€2250

Niels Schalley

Hannibal Books 2018 NL EN

The fable ‘Van den vos Reynaerde’ was written in the 13th century Flanders. The fox is an antihero: a villain - even a murderer - who mercilessly denounces the hypocrisy of the establishment.

Phoebus Focus

The Allegory of the Seven Liberal Arts

€2250

Hildegard Van de Velde

Hannibal Books 2018

The Allegory of the Seven Liberal Arts is a masterpiece from the Flemish painter Maerten de Vos. For the first time this unique artwork is analyzed in depth and placed in its historical context.

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Coming Home

€45

Katharina Van Cauteren

Lannoo 2017 NL

Discover an important turning point in Flemish art history with remarkable figures such as Valerius De Saedeleer and Emile Claus.

OKV

From Memling to Rubens

€10

Openbaar Kunstbezit Vlaanderen 2021 NL

From Memling to Rubens tells the story of Flemish art from the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as you’ve never read it before. It’s a rollercoaster ride through 300 years of cultur ...

OKV

Crazy about Dymphna

€10

Openbaar Kunstbezit Vlaanderen 2022 NL

Without Geel no Dimpna. Discover the history of the town in Kempen and its connection with the Irish saint.

Phoebus Focus

Kitchen Still Life with Christ in the House of Martha and Mary

€2250

Prisca Valkeneers

Hannibal Books 2018

Things are not always what they seem, like in the Still Life painting with the depiction of Christ in the house of Marta and Mary.

Phoebus Focus

St. Luke Painting the Virgin and Child

€2250

Hannibal Books 2017

In the first Phoebus Focus, a small triptych with the depiction of Saint Luke painting the Madonna is analyzed in depth.

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Reynaert the Fox

€0

The Phoebus Foundation 2018 NL

Discover the adventures of the sly Reynaert and the history of this medieval legend.

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The Bold and the Beautiful

€60

Katharina Van Cauteren

Hannibal Books 2020 NL

The Bold and the Beautiful is an appointment with history: a meeting through the art of portrait painting with men and women from bygone centuries. This book takes masterpieces from the collection of ...

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Crazy about Dymphna

€60

Sven Van Dorst

Hannibal Books 2020 NL FR EN

Discover the Dymphna altarpiece and the story of the remarkable Irish saint.

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From Memling to Rubens

€60

Katharina Van Cauteren

Hannibal Books 2020 NL

Discover three hundred years of cultural history, starring breathtaking masterpieces from The Phoebus Foundation collection.

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