The website for the 23rd Symposium for the Study of Underdrawing and Technology in Painting- ‘Cross-Media Perspectives
Technical Studies of Art on Panel, Paper and Parchment (1400-1600)’ has been launched. The registration form and call for papers can be found on the site for those wishing to attend the symposium or submit a paper for consideration.
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
The scientific program for the 23rd Symposium for the Study of Underdrawing and Technology in Painting has been published on the conference website.
Prof. Barbara Baert, associated researcher at Illuminare, is awarded the Warburg-Professur 2023.
The Flemish research centre for the arts in the Burgundian Netherlands is organising the fourth edition of its museum research school in 2020-2021.
Professor Barbara Baert
Departing from research on the complex manufacturing processes then characteristic of the commercial Parisian manuscript production, the present study examines the meaning and function of the mostly conventional and formulaic miniatures within the overall structure of the manuscripts. The traditions of illustrated French legendaries and the Legenda aurea in particular serve as a background against which the present study discusses pictorial strategies that allowed book producers and patrons to add or to stress certain layers of meaning in well-known texts.
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).
On 7-9 November, the 10th ARDS Annual conference will take place in Rome. Theme this year is “the interaction and interplay between the Low Countries and Italy in medieval and Renaissance sculpture”. Max Wiringa, Affiliated Researcher at Illuminare, will deliver a lecture at the conference, entitled “Giambologna and Della Porta”.
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…
