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On May 24, 2022, the seminar “Das Nachleben der Antike: Methods and Perspectives” will take place in Leuven. This activity is part of the FNRS network “Iconologies”.
Digital Corpus of Flemish Retabels The aim of the project Digital Corpus of Flemish Retables is to disclose three collections of 15th and 16th century Flemish altarpieces in images in order to create a Digital Corpus of Flemish Retables that is as complete as possible. It contains visual documentation that was collected by Herman De…
Van donderdag 5 tot en met zondag 8 mei 2022 vindt in Leuven de eerste editie plaats van het woord-en boekenfestival ‘Druk in Leuven’. Ook Professor Lieve Watteeuw en professor Barbara Baert zijn van de partij en nemen je mee naar het onderzoek rond de Bijbel van Anjou en de relatie tussen literatuur en kunst.
Maurits Smeyers (1937-1999) was a Belgian art historian and full professor at KU Leuven. He founded Illuminare in 1983, which was first established as a study centre for medieval book illumination. Professor Smeyers was a celebrated expert of medieval art, notably of Flemish book illumination, pre-Eyckian painting and Jan van Eyck. His extensive archives were donated…
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
