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Audio-visual presentation
‘Rockox and his time’

This updated, digitalized presentation provides a comprehensive overview of the fascinating age in which Rockox lived; of his political, artistic and social influence on Antwerp from the Fall of Antwerp (1585), with the subsequent closure of the Schelde, to the Peace of Munster (1648), which marked the final separation of Northern and Southern Netherlands.


Dutch, French, English and German Duration: 25 minutes

A Biography of Nicolaas Rockox: Burgomaster of Antwerp during it’s Golden Age – by Leen Huet and Jan Grieten

The art historians Leen Huet and Jan Grieten have written a new biography of Nicolaas Rockox … a biography that places this 17th century patrician in a contemporary context. This new publication bears witness to the fact that, at that time, social involvement, patronage and socially responsible business practices were key elements in giving a city its mark of quality. For this work, the authors trawled through hundreds of archived documents and discovered surprising new facts surrounding this fascinating figure. This Rockox biography is published in Dutch by Meulenhoff/Manteau, Antwerp