Marije Osnabrugge, The Neapolitan Lives and Careers of Netherlandish Immigrant Painters (1575-1655)

Over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, more than six hundred Netherlandish artists undertook the journey to Italy. Whereas studies on artistic migration and cultural exchange have been conducted for early modern Netherlandish painters in Rome, Florence and Venice, the city of Naples has been neglected. Marije Osnabrugge, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Geneva, fills this important gap with her scholarly book based on her doctoral thesis at the University of Amsterdam. It is the first extensive study on Netherlandish painters in Naples. The author thoroughly examines published and unpublished archival evidence (such as baptismal records, marriage documents, contracts, bank payments, inventories, and letters), seventeenthand eighteenth-century biographies and securely identified paintings.