MICHAEL PYE AUTHOR TALK
ANTWERP: THE GLORY YEARS
With author Michael Pye
Before glamorous 19th-century Paris or menacing 20th-century New York, there was Antwerp in the 16th century - the city of Bruegel and then Rubens, a river port which played politics to become a dazzling world city.
Join Michael Pye, author of Antwerp: The Glory Years, for this talk which will explore the sensational history of the town where Bruegel and Rubens worked.
Antwerp's markets guaranteed credit for the known world whilst its scandals went around Europe, dinner table by dinner table.
Books and music and art created in Antwerp decorated Medici palaces, American chapels and helped kings when they went wooing.
It was the city of the deal which survived sieges and fires and mutinies to leave a double legacy: wonderful art, and the machinery to sell it.
In this fascinating talk from Michael Pye, you'll delve into all this rich history and discover more about the backdrop to our current Bruegel to Rubens exhibition.
About Michael Pye
Michael Pye's 12 previous books have been translated into 15 languages; three have been New York Times 'Notable Books of the Year', two were British bestsellers and one became a Hollywood movie.
He won various prizes in Modern History at Oxford, and went on to be journalist, broadcaster and columnist in London and New York. He lives in Amsterdam.
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This event is part of our Making a Mark season of events.
Public programming is in partnership with Visit Flanders and the Diplomatic Representation of Flanders to the UK.
