{"id":13284,"date":"2020-06-02T16:23:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T16:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/the-bold-and-the-beautiful\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T11:34:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T11:34:57","slug":"the-bold-and-the-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/the-bold-and-the-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bold and the Beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Men in stately black, women with  huge ruffs, children with golden rattles, old women with wizened faces,  and self-satisfied artists&#8230; These are the main players in just about  every portrait ever painted in the Southern Netherlands. From the15th to  the 17th centuries, the tract of land that we today call Flanders was  the economic, cultural, intellectual and financial heart of Europe. And  money flows &#8211; with everyone who could afford it investing in a portrait.<\/p>\n<p>Today,  these cherished status symbols of the past have largely lost their  original significance. But beyond their functional and emotional  aspects, these portraits turn their subjects into gateways to the past.  This book takes masterpieces from the collection of The Phoebus  Foundation and outlines the broad context in which they came into being,  peeling back levels of meaning like the layers of an onion. Whether  captured in an impressive Rubens or Van Dyck, or an intimate portrait by  a forgotten artist, the persons portrayed were once flesh and blood,  each with their own peculiarities, hidden agendas and ambitions. Some  portraits are very personal and hyper-individual. Others are a little  dusty, the ladies and gentleman being children of their time. In most  cases, however, their dreams and aspirations are surprisingly timeless  and soberingly recognisable.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Bold and the Beautiful<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n is an appointment with history: a meeting through portraiture with men  and women from bygone centuries. But for those willing to look closely,  the border between the present and the past is paper-thin.<\/p>\n<p>Published on the occasion of the exhibition <em>Blind Date<\/em>.  Portretten met blikken en blozen, Autumn 2020, in  Snijders&amp;Rockoxhuis Antwerp, curated by Dr. Katharina Van Cauteren  &amp; Hildegard Van de Velde with a scenography by Walter Van  Beirendonck.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of Flemish portraiture told through masterpieces from an important private collection, most of which have never before been published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5523],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13284","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-art","7":"author-by-author-hildegard-van-de-velde","8":"author-by-author-katharina-van-cauteren","9":"author-by-author-matthias-ubl","10":"author-by-author-nils-buttner","11":"publisher-hannibal-books","13":"first","14":"instock","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Bold and the Beautiful - ACC Art Books US<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/the-bold-and-the-beautiful\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Bold and the Beautiful - ACC Art Books US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The story of Flemish portraiture told through masterpieces from an important private collection, most of which have never before been published.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/the-bold-and-the-beautiful\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ACC Art Books US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-30T11:34:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/app\/uploads\/books\/9789463887403-04-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"832\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/the-bold-and-the-beautiful\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/the-bold-and-the-beautiful\/\",\"name\":\"The Bold and the Beautiful - ACC Art Books US\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/the-bold-and-the-beautiful\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/the-bold-and-the-beautiful\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/app\/uploads\/books\/9789463887403-04-1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-06-02T16:23:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-30T11:34:57+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/the-bold-and-the-beautiful\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/the-bold-and-the-beautiful\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/the-bold-and-the-beautiful\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/app\/uploads\/books\/9789463887403-04-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/app\/uploads\/books\/9789463887403-04-1.jpg\",\"width\":832,\"height\":1000},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/the-bold-and-the-beautiful\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Books\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/books\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"The Bold and the Beautiful\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/\",\"name\":\"ACC Art Books US\",\"description\":\"One of the world\u2019s leading publishers and distributors of books on the arts and visual culture\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The Bold and the Beautiful - ACC Art Books US","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/the-bold-and-the-beautiful\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The Bold and the Beautiful - ACC Art Books US","og_description":"The story of Flemish portraiture told through masterpieces from an important private collection, most of which have never before been published.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/the-bold-and-the-beautiful\/","og_site_name":"ACC Art Books US","article_modified_time":"2025-07-30T11:34:57+00:00","og_image":[{"width":832,"height":1000,"url":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/app\/uploads\/books\/9789463887403-04-1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/the-bold-and-the-beautiful\/","url":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/the-bold-and-the-beautiful\/","name":"The Bold and the Beautiful - ACC Art Books US","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/the-bold-and-the-beautiful\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/the-bold-and-the-beautiful\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/app\/uploads\/books\/9789463887403-04-1.jpg","datePublished":"2020-06-02T16:23:24+00:00","dateModified":"2025-07-30T11:34:57+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/the-bold-and-the-beautiful\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/the-bold-and-the-beautiful\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/the-bold-and-the-beautiful\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/app\/uploads\/books\/9789463887403-04-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/app\/uploads\/books\/9789463887403-04-1.jpg","width":832,"height":1000},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/the-bold-and-the-beautiful\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Books","item":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/books\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"The Bold and the Beautiful"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/","name":"ACC Art Books US","description":"One of the world\u2019s leading publishers and distributors of books on the arts and visual culture","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/13284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=13284"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=13284"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=13284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}