中文简介：

本书介绍了耶罗尼米斯·博斯（约1450-1516）、约翰·戈塞特（约1478-1532）、马腾范·海姆斯凯克（1498-1574）、老彼得·勃鲁盖尔（约1525-1569）、亨德里克·格兹乌斯（1558-1617）等人的作品，将16世纪低地国家的绘画作为一种动态、多面的实践。绘画所扮演的角色与制作它们的艺术家一样多：它们是印刷品、绘画、彩色玻璃窗、装饰品和挂毯的设计，也是展示、翻译以及展示知识和技艺的工具。艺术家们多元化的城市社区塑造了他们的绘画实践，围绕新教改革和八十年战争的文化和政治环境的变化也是如此。除了书中四篇富有启发性的文章外，从阿尔贝蒂纳博物馆和克利夫兰艺术博物馆的藏品中挑选出的80多个目录条目中，有许多都是新的研究。

英文简介：

Featuring works by Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516), Jan Gossaert (c. 1478–1532), Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574), Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525–1569), Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617), and others, this book positions drawing in the Low Countries in the sixteenth century as a dynamic, multifaceted practice. Drawings played roles as varied as the artists who made them: they were designs for prints, paintings, stained glass windows, decorative objects, and tapestries, as well as tools for presentation, translation, and the display of knowledge and virtuosity. The artists' diversified urban communities shaped their drawing practices, as did shifting cultural and political circumstances surrounding Protestant Reform and the Eighty Years' War. In addition to the book's four illuminating essays, many of the more than eighty catalogue entries—selected from the holdings of The Albertina Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art—present new research.