Conference: “Netherlandish Carved Altarpieces”
From 12-14 May, the international conference “Netherlandish Carved Altarpieces” will take place online.
From 12-14 May, the international conference “Netherlandish Carved Altarpieces” will take place online.
Professor Jan Karel Steppe (1918-2009) was a renowned specialist of Flemish tapestry, early Netherlandish painting (notably Jan van Eyck and Hieronymus Bosch), medieval sculpture, religious (micro)architecture and sixteenth-century Spanish collectors of Netherlandish art. His archives were donated to Illuminare in 2010 and 2018. They consist of a rich variety of resources, including books, articles, handwritten…
On 26 and 27 March 2022 the international Symposium “The Imagery of Wind” will take place on the occasion of the Japanese translation of Barbara Baert’s book Pneuma and the Visual Medium in the Middle Ages and Early Modernity (Peeters, 2016).
Antoine de Schryver (1924-2005) was a Belgian art historian and professor at Ghent University, where he lectured on medieval art. He was a specialist in the field of illuminated manuscripts and paintings of the Burgundian Netherlands. His documentation was donated to Illuminare in 2005. De Schryver left behind approximately 75 meters of research resources, including books,…
Registration for the 22nd ‘Symposium for the Study of Underdrawing and Technology in Painting’ has opened. The international and interdisciplinary symposium, organized by Musea Brugge and the Université Catholique de Louvain, takes place in Bruges from 28 to 30 March 2022
Hans Nieuwdorp is a Belgian art historian and honorary curator of the Antwerp Art Museums. He was the former head of the Mayer van den Bergh Museum in Antwerp (1976-2009). Nieuwdorp, an eminent specialist in the field of medieval and early modern sculpture, donated his extensive documentation on Flemish carved altarpieces to Illuminare in 2014. Illuminare…
Bert Cardon (1946-2015), honorary professor at KU Leuven, was a specialist of illuminated manuscripts and late medieval typology. He was the co-founder and former director of Illuminare. If you would like to consult the archives or if you wish to receive the latest inventory, do not hesitate to contact us via illuminare@kuleuven.be.
Tijdens deze Denkvoerlezing neemt Ruben Suykerbuyk, curator bij het museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, de fameuze priant-graven van de Nederlanden in de 16e eeuw onder de loep.
The Illuminare Image Database (IID), a work in progess, is an open access research database for medieval and early modern illuminated manuscripts. The database consists of more than 19,000 digitised slides with accompanying metadata (in English) from the archival collections of Illuminare. The slide collection was assembled by the centre between 1983 and 1999. Most of…
On 23 march, Paul Vandenbroeck will deliver the keynote-lecture at the 4th edition of the Method/Art seminar.