Erudite Eyes: Friendship, Art and Erudition in the Network of Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598)

Erudite Eyes explores how friendship between artists and humanists in the network of Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) produced an antiquarian culture that yielded new knowledge on local antiquities and distant civilizations and that articulated artistic practice between Bruegel and Rubens.

Tine Luk Meganck, Ph.D. (2003), Princeton University, is Assistant Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels, Belgium). She is the author of, among others, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Fall of the Rebel Angels. Art, Knowledge and Politics on the Eve of the Dutch Revolt (Silvana, 2014) and co-editor of Bruegel’s Winter Scenes. Historians and Art Historians in Dialogue (Mercatorfonds/Yale University Press, 2018).