On 8th March, Paul Vandenbroeck will deliver the lecture ‘Who said the commissioner of Bosch’s so-called Garden of Delights was a man?’ for the symposium ‘Key women in the creation of the Prado’s collections. From Isabella I of Castile to Isabel Clara Eugenia. ‘
Op 13/01 gaf Jan Van der Stock een online rondleiding op de tentoonstelling ‘Verbeelding van het Universum’ die hij cureerde naar aanleiding van het KNAL! Festival. In deze lezing neemt professor Van der Stock ons op sleeptouw langs enkele topstukken van de tentoonstelling.
On 8 December 2021, Barbara Baert delivered the James Loeb Lecture 2021 at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte.
This lecture features a grisaille fresco depicting the Kairos/Occasio motif (Museo della Città nel Palazzo di San Sebastiano in Mantua).
Justin E A Kroesen gaat in op de bewogen geschiedenis van de Nederlandse laatgotische altaarstukken, van religieus fanatisme tot artistieke waardering. Zo kom je onder andere meer te weten over de export van de retabels en over hun functies in verschillende uithoeken van Europa.
On 24 June Barbara Baert will present a paper entitled “Petrifying Gazes: Danaë and the Uncanny Space in the Painting by Jan Gossaert (1478-1532)”.
On Thursday 29 April Paul Vandenbroeck will present a paper entitled “ENCOUNTERS (‘Rencontres’) 2017. Un événement-expérience-exposition (?) transculturel” at the Rites et Musées study day organised by Musée universitaire de Louvain and UCLouvain.
On Tuesday 13 April Jeroen Luyckx will present a paper on Cornelis I (d. 1528) and Willem Liefrinck (d. c. 1536–46), the brothers who laid the foundation for what would grow to be a dynasty of printmakers.
Maarten Bassens won the prestigious 2021 Ricciardi Prize for Best Article by a Young Scholar by Master Drawings (New York). In his contribution, Maarten shed light on Jan Verbeeck, a 16th-century enigmatic draughtsman from Mechelen.
On Friday 5 March Wendy Wauters will give a lecture on the sensory and ritual experience in the Antwerp Church of Our Lady (c. 1450-1566), organised by the Ruusbroecgenootschap (Universiteit Antwerpen).
In this new book, Barbara Baert enters into a dialogue with academics, artists and artlovers on their favourite works of art.