Credits
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Jan Brueghel the Elder and Hendrik van Balen, Winter, 1616, Alte Pinakothek, Munich. Image: © Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen – Staatsgalerie Neuburg.
Detail of a map of Antwerp showing the Cathedral of Our Lady (B), the stock exchange (S), Saint Jacob's (W), and the Ximenez residence on the Meir (no. 90), the city's main thoroughfare; the house is in the block between the Meir and the Corte Claere street (no. 85). In Jan Blaeu Novum ac magnum theatrum urbium Belgicae regiae ad praesentis temporis faciem expressum, Amsterdam 1649. Image: © Brussels, Royal Library of Belgium.
The Ximenez-Da Vega Inventory, June 1617, fol. 1r, FelixArchief, Antwerp, SAA N 1489. Image: © FelixArchief.
Entry by Emmanuel Ximenez in the album amicorum of Gillis Anselmo (1575-1602), fol. 32r, 23 October 1601, National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague, 71 J 57. Image: © Koninklijke Bibliotheek.
Pieter van der Borcht, Tournament with the Ximenez house in the background. In Johannes Bochius, Descriptio publicae gratulationis, spectaculorum et ludorum, in adventu Sereniss. Principis Ernesti Archiducis Austriae. Antwerp: Plantin, 1595. 140-141. Image: © Rijksmuseum.
Ximenez's country estate 'Het Blauwhof.' In Antonius Sanderus, Flandria illustrata, sive Descriptio comitates istius per totum terrarum orbem celeberrimi, Cologne: Cornelius ab Egmondt, 1641-1644. 24. Image: © Ghent University Library.
Detail from the title page of Jan Huygen van Linschoten, Navigatio ac itinerarium in orientalem sive Lusitanorum Indiam, The Hague: Albertus Henrici, 1599. Image: © Zentralbibliothek Zürich.
The Art of Treating Stones, from Antonio Neri, Libro intitulato il tesoro del mondo di Pietre Antonio Neri, about 1599, fol. 7r, Ferguson Collection, University of Glasgow. Image: © University of Glasgow Library, Special Collections.
Frans Snyders (?), The Fable of the Drunken Deer, seventeenth century, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris. Image: © Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature. Photo: Sylvie Durand.
