Holland – Wijngaerde, Frans van den. (1614 – 1679).

A Collection of Battle Scenes from Famiano Strada’s De Thien eerste Boecken der Nederlandtsche Oorloge.

Original Engravings. Antwerp, Ian Cnobbaert, 1646. Plate Size: 32 cm x 25.5 cm. Sheet Size: 34 cm x 29 cm. In very good condition with only minor traces of browning to outer margins.

A fascinating collection of six engravings of battle scenes from Famiano Strada’s De Thien eerste Boecken der Nederlandtsche Oorloge – a Dutch translation from the original Italian ‘De Bello Belgico’. Strada’s monumental work covered the epic Eighty Years War(1568–1648), a religiously influenced war of liberation fought by the Seventeen Provinces of the Spanish Netherlands against the forces of the Habsburg Spanish Empire. Preceding and then forming part of the pan-European, Thirty Years Wars, the Dutch War of Independence ended with the Dutch Republic recognized by Spain and the major European powers. The independent Dutch were then to embark upon their remarkable Golden Age of the 17-18th centuries.
The series of engraving presented here show some of the major engagements that helped shape the course of the war. They are rich in detail, capturing the rush and horror of the clash of armies in the early modern period – to a degree where one can almost hear and feel the blasts of cannon and muskets, crash of iron, roar of men, and the sound of excited horses leaping from the page. The decorative cartouches accompanying each scene provides explanatory notes on the unfolding dramas. A remarkable group of images.
The titles of the scenes – in order of appearance in Famiano’s are as follows:
’‘TGhevecht van Oosterweel Onder de Governante Margarita. Ann.1567’’
’‘Den Veldtlagh Van Heyligherless in Vrieslandt onder den Hertoghe Van Alba. Anno1658.’’
’‘De Belegeringhe Van Valencyn Onder de Govvernante Vrow Margarita Van Oostenryck Hertoghinne Van Parma. A.1567.’’
’‘Den Veldtslagh Van Heminghen in Vrieslandt Onder Den Hertoghe Van Alba. Anno 1568.’
’‘TGhevlecht Byde Riviere Gheete in Brabandt Onder den Heroghe Van Alba. Anno 1568.’
’De Belegeringhe Van Berghen in Henegovw Onder den Hertogh van Alba. Anno 1572.’

Frans van den Wyngaerde or Frans van den Wijngaerde (1614 – 1679) was a Flemish printmaker, draughtsman and publisher. One of the leading print publishers in 17th-century Antwerp, he created and published multiple reproductive prints after Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck as well as foreign artists.

Famiano Strada (1572 – 1649 ) was an Italian Jesuit , historian and moralist. Strada taught at the Collegio Romano of the Jesuits in Rome. He taught rhetoric and Latin to, among others, Bishop Lorenzo della Robbia and Pope Clement IX . He was fiercely anti- Tacitus , because he thought that this Roman writer stood for undermining the authority of the king and gave rise to a loss of confidence in leadership. The most famous work by Famiano Strada is De Bello Belgico decades duae, 1555-1590 ( Dutch : The War in the Low Countries), and was written with the help of Alexander Farnese (1545-1592), around 1602. It was published in 1632 and translated into Dutch in 1646.

• Keywords: Battles · Catalogue Four – International Art · Dutch · Dutch history · European History · Hapsburg Empire · Holland · Military History – Rare · Original Art · Original Decorative Art Rare · Original Engraving · Spanish Empire, Imperialism · The Netherlands · Vintage · War · Wars of Religion
• Inventory Number: 200094AG

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