Manuscript MMW 10 F 50 is a fifteenth-century book of hours written in Middle Dutch with richly decorated margins. The majority of the figures in these margins are animals, beasts and half-human...Show moreManuscript MMW 10 F 50 is a fifteenth-century book of hours written in Middle Dutch with richly decorated margins. The majority of the figures in these margins are animals, beasts and half-human hybrids. What is the meaning of these figures and why were they placed next to religious texts? To which extent do the animals, beasts and half-human hybrids in the margins of MMW 10 F 50 illustrate the text? Through iconographic research and text-analysis it will become clear what the narrative is behind text and image, what text and image communicate and how they relate to each other.Show less
This thesis aims to shed a new light on Torrentius’s Still Life with Roemer, Sheet Music, Flagon, Jug, Pipes, and Bridle (1614) and Watercolour with Star, Sky, Water, and Geometrical Figures (1615)...Show moreThis thesis aims to shed a new light on Torrentius’s Still Life with Roemer, Sheet Music, Flagon, Jug, Pipes, and Bridle (1614) and Watercolour with Star, Sky, Water, and Geometrical Figures (1615) via an integral and multidisciplinary approach. By incorporating elements from music, rhetoric, poetry, and Antiquity, as well as by incorporating all details from these two works, new views have been put forward concerning their interpretation.Show less
