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Welcome to the Illuminare website

Illuminare - Centre for the Study of Medieval Art is an academic and documentation centre at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven).

Illuminare - Centre for the Study of Medieval Art studies and provides accessibility to illuminated manuscripts produced in the Southern Netherlands from around 1350 to 1550.

Illuminare - Centre for the Study of Medieval Art was founded in 1983 by the late Professor Maurits Smeyers. From its inception the study centre has carried out research, provided education and offered expertise. At present Illuminare is directed by Professor Jan Van der Stock and has a staff of 15 associates.

Illuminare mourns the tragic death of Veronique Vandekerchove

Veronique Vandekerchove (°1965), chief curator of fine arts and deputy superintendent of M – Museum Leuven, died on the evening of 25 January 2012 of injuries sustained in a traffic accident. She will be deeply missed by the entire team at Illuminare, who join in extending their sincere condolences to her family and friends.

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Van Eyck Studies Colloquium

---- 19 - 21 September 2012 ----

The eighteenth conference for the 'Study of Underdrawing and Technology in Painting' has been dedicated to the recent research developments in the oeuvre of Jan Van Eyck.

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Call for Nominations: "Roger de le Pasture / Rogier Van der Weyden Prize"

This year the prize will reward two Master Theses related to the history of figurative arts in the Southern Netherlands during the Burgundian period (late 14th - early 16th centuries).

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Call for Papers: Res gestae - res pictae: Epen-Illustrationen des 13. bis 15. Jahrhunderts

-- 28 February - 2 March 2013 --

This international conference in Vienna seeks to examine particularly manuscripts with extensive pictorial cycles.

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Paperconservation: Decisions & Compromises

------- 17 - 19 April 2013 -------

The Interim Meeting of theWorking Group Graphic Documents will be held in Vienna and hosted by the Austrian National Library

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Call for papers: The Gruuthuse manuscript. Literature, music, devotion around 1400

------ 25 - 27 April 2013 ------

This international conference will have a multidisciplinary examination of the (cultural) space in which compilations such as the Gruuthuse manuscript existed.

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Advanced Master in Medieval and Renaissance Studies (KU Leuven)

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Magnificent Middle Ages. The Museum Plantin-Moretus' finest manuscripts

--- 22.12.2012 - 24.03.2013 ---

The Museum Plantin-Moretus/ Print Room and Illuminare - Centre for the Study of Medieval Art are preparing a catalogue of the illuminated manuscripts in the collection. The 15 finest manuscripts from the 9th untill the 15th century will be on show in this exhibition.

Conservation of the Anjou Bible completed

After an extensive international research and conservation project lasting more than four years, the 14th-century Neapolitan manuscript, renowned as the Anjou Bible, will be returning permanently to the renovated Treasure Room of the Maurits Sabbe library, at the Faculty of Theology and Religion (KU Leuven).

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Van der Weyden Chair -

Paul & Dora Janssen

Illuminare - Centre for the Study of Medieval Art is supported by the Paul & Dora Janssen Chair.

Illuminare
Centre for the Study of Medieval Art
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Postal address:

Blijde-Inkomststraat 21
3000 Leuven, Belgium

illuminare@arts.kuleuven.be

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