• The Antwerp School for painting flourished during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Antwerp School was comprised of many generations of artists and is known for portraiture, animal paintings, still lifes, and prints.
• Antwerp Mannerism bore no relation to Renaissance Mannerism, but the name suggests a reaction to the "classic" style of the earlier Flemish painters. Although attempts have been made to identify the individual artists, most of the paintings remain attributed to anonymous masters.
• Antwerp was an internationally significant publishing centre, and had a huge production of old master prints and book illustrations. Furthermore, Antwerp animaliers or animal painters, such as Frans Snyders, Jan Fyt and Paul de Vos, dominated animal-painting in Europe.