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.
This newly published book entitled “Signed ‘PAN’. Erwin Panofsk’s (1892-1968) ‘The History of Art as a Humanistic Discipline’ (Princeton, 1938)” is written by Barbara Baert.
The images analyzed in this book, written by Ivan Gérat, give each viewer the possibility to interact with Saint Elizabeth’s unique spiritual way, which was nurtured by various sources, including moments of spontaneous inspiration.
This newly published book on Niobe’s transformation into a weeping rock is written by Barbara Baert.
In this book dr. Annemie Leemans investigates the practical knowledge flux in early modern Europe, with a specific interest in art technological knowledge, which frequently appears in all-purpose recipe books.
This book, written by Laura Tack, intends to map the agency of Gertrud Bing, in a way that Bing herself would have probably preferred. According to Bing, the ideal biography ought to merge the personal with the intellectual, since, what one experiences as a human being will also find its way into the academic oeuvre one leaves behind.
This beautifully illustrated volume explores fourty-five remarkable books representing the immense variety and richness of the collections in the Maurits Sabbe Library.
In this new book, Barbara Baert enters into a dialogue with academics, artists and artlovers on their favourite works of art.
An article about our project Digital Corpus of Flemish Retables appeared in the Flemish-Dutch cultural magazine ons erfdeel / de lage landen, written by Hannah De Moor.
Out now: the new book “Enclosed Gardens of Mechelen. Late Medieval Paradise Gardens Revealed”, edited by Lieve Watteeuw and Hannah Iterbeke.