Timber trade in 17th-century Europe: different wood sources for artworks of Flemish painters.

ABSTRACT: The former Spanish Netherlands experienced a period of social, cultural and economic prosperity in the seventeenth century, with Antwerp as its most important commercial and artistic centre. The era's vibrant art scene, once pivotal culturally, economically, and diplomatically, now offers invaluable insights for scientific studies on art, trade, and craftsmanship. In a study on 294 panel paintings by or related to two famous Flemish artists, Jacques Jordaens (1593-1678) and Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), we applied classical art historical techniques, archival research, dendrochronology, and the study of panel maker's and guild marks on the painting's reverse to gain insights into the precise time of tree felling, the geographical provenance of the wood, and the panel makers patronised by t

SUBMITTER: Seim A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11303553 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature