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Mercury Bearing Psyche To Mount Olympus

€2250

Larry Silver

Hannibal Books 2025 NL EN

Phoebus Focus XXXVIII In this edition of Phoebus Focus, Prof. dr. Larry Silver guides you to the court of Rudolf II. The author expertly demonstrates how art was used politically and conjures up a wor ...

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Coming Home

€45

Katharina Van Cauteren

Hannibal Books 2025 NL

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

Phoebus Focus

Portrait of Lady Dering

€2250

Katharina Van Cauteren

Hannibal Books 2025 NL EN

XXXVII

This edition of Phoebus Focus revolves around Frances Bell, the future Lady Dering, and her portrait. It’s a story of deeply human emotions – devotion to a husband imposed upon her, anxieties abou ...

Phoebus Focus

Mary of Burgundy Distributing Alms

€2250

Jan Dirk Baetens

Hannibal Books 2025 NL EN

XXXIX

Henri Leys, painter of many a scene that adorns the walls of the City on the Scheldt’s Town Hall and so highly acclaimed that he was made a baron. But that was then and this is now, and Baron Leys a ...

Phoebus Focus

Portrait of Mary Sidney Herbert

€2250

Leen Kelchtermans

Hannibal Books 2025 NL EN

XL

Dr Leen Kelchtermans recounts the intriguing life story of Mary Sidney, Lady Herbert, and whisks you away on a journey through time and space, from Mary’s country estate in Wilton to the Ardennes an ...

Phoebus Focus

Two Fisherboys

€2250

Hannibal Books 2025 NL EN

XLI

In this edition of Phoebus Focus, Lotte Kokkedee and Anna Tummers’ analysis extends beyond technology. They position Two Fisherboys in the context of Hals’ oeuvre. After all, are these seemingly i ...

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Forever Flowers – Mastery and Meaning of Flower Paintings in the Low Countries (1600-1700)

€60

Sven Van Dorst

Hannibal Books 2025 NL EN

If flowers could talk… In Forever Flowers, conservator Sven Van Dorst offers a different perspective on a vibrant genre, the seventeenth-century Flemish flower still life. His detailed explorati ...

Phoebus Focus

Amorphous Figures

€2250

Naomi Meulemans

Hannibal Books Hannibal Books 2024 NL

XXXVI

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

Phoebus Focus

Vase of Flowers with Vanitas Symbols

€2250

Sven Van Dorst

Hannibal Books 2023 NL EN

XXXIV

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

The Holy Family in Nazareth

€2250

Katharina Van Cauteren

Hannibal Books 2023 NL

XXXV

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

Head-Baker

€2250

Wendy Wauters

Hannibal Books 2023 NL EN

XXXI

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, ...

Phoebus Focus

Kursaal and Sea Dyke

€2250

Hannibal Books 2023 NL EN

XXXII

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 ...

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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

Portrait of Johannes Gansacker I

€2250

Leen Kelchtermans

Hannibal Books Hannibal Books 2023 NL

XXXIII

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 ...

Phoebus Focus

Portrait of Henricus Liberti

€2250

Timothy De Paepe

Hannibal Books 2022

XXVII

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

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

€2250

Sven Van Dorst

Hannibal Books 2022

XXVIII

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 ...

Phoebus Focus

Pleurants

€2250

Matthew Reeves

Hannibal Books 2022

XXVI

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

Phoebus Focus

War Lace

€2250

Wendy Wiertz

Hannibal Books 2022

XXIX

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

Susanna and the Elders

€2250

Katharina Van Cauteren

Hannibal Books 2022 NL EN

XXX

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 ...

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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 ...

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

Stoning of Saint Paul and Scourging of Saint Paul

€2250

Hannibal Books 2021

XXII

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 ...

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 Emperor Servius Sulpicius Galba

€2250

Nils Büttner

Hannibal Books 2021

XXIV

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 ...

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 ...

Phoebus Focus

Portrait of a Gentleman

€2250

Lara Yeager-Crasselt

Hannibal Books 2021

XXI

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

Phoebus Focus

Saint Begga

€2250

Leen Kelchtermans

Hannibal Books 2021

XXV

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

XXIII

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

Portrait of Elisabeth Jordaens

€2250

Leen Kelchtermans

Hannibal Books 2020

XVIII

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

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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.

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 ...

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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 ...

Phoebus Focus

The Lamentation of the Dying Mary Magdalene

€2250

Lieke Wijnia

Hannibal Books 2020

XX

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

Descrittione di Tutti i Paesi Bassi

€2250

Dina Aristodemo

Hannibal Books Hannibal Books 2020 NL EN

XVI

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

Study of a Young Woman

€2250

Hannibal Books 2020

XIX

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

Hairnets, Hoods and Caps

€2250

Petra Linscheid

Hannibal Books 2020

XVII

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

A Sailor and a Woman Embracing

€2250

Nils Büttner

Hannibal Books 2020

XV

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 ...

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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.

Phoebus Focus

Keep Your Mouth Shut

€2250

Larry Silver

Hannibal Books 2020

XI

‘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

Biblia Regia Printed on Vellum

€2250

Dirk Imhof

Hannibal Books 2020

XIII

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

XII

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

Bird

€2250

Naomi Meulemans

Hannibal Books 2019

XIV

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

Attack on Travellers

€2250

Leen Kelchtermans

Hannibal Books 2019

VII

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 ...

OKV

Lace is More!

€10

Openbaar Kunstbezit Vlaanderen 2019 NL

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

Phoebus Focus

Apollo on His Sun Chariot

€2250

Hans Vlieghe

Hannibal Books 2019

VIII

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

Phoebus Focus

Elegant Company in a Garden

€2240

Timothy De Paepe

Hannibal Books 2019

IX

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

Phoebus Focus

The Allegory of the Seven Liberal Arts

€2250

Hildegard Van de Velde

Hannibal Books 2018

III

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.

Phoebus Focus

Portrait of a Young Woman

€2250

Leen Kelchtermans

Hannibal Books 2018

X

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

Phoebus Focus

The Mere-Monster of Lake Tagua Tagua

€2250

Katharina Van Cauteren

Hannibal Books 2018

V

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

IV

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.

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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.

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

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

€2250

Prisca Valkeneers

Hannibal Books 2018

II

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

Roses, Narcissi and Tulips in a Glass Vase

€2250

Sven Van Dorst

Hannibal Books 2018

VI

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

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 ...

Phoebus Focus