Symposium XVIII for the Study of Underdrawing and Technology in Painting
Brussels, 19-21 september 2012
The Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK/IRPA) and its Centre for the Study of the Flemish Primitives are honoured to announce the Van Eyck Studies Colloquium in Brussels on 19-21 September 2012. The colloquium is intended for art-historians, curators, conservators and scientists studying painting from the Southern Netherlands in the 15th century.
This is the eighteenth in a series of prestigious conferences for the ‘Study of Underdrawing and Technology in Painting’, initiated in 1975 by the Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL). The Triennial colloquium is alternately organized by the KIK/IRPA, the UCL and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, who hosted in 2009 the seventeenth symposium dedicated to Rogier van der Weyden.
This 2012 colloquium has been dedicated to Van Eyck because of the recent research developments in his oeuvre, particularly in the Ghent Altarpiece that underwent an urgent conservation treatment in 2010 and will be restored in the following years by the KIK/IRPA. To encourage research on this masterpiece, scholars are warmly invited to make use of the recent website about the Ghent Altarpiece, supported by the Getty Foundation: closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be.
Main colloquium topics :
- Technical studies on paintings, drawings and miniature paintings by Jan Van Eyck;
- Studies of underdrawings in Van Eyck’s paintings, his painting practice, materials and technique;
- Documentary sources, original archival and historiographical research;
- Research on iconography and iconology in the paintings of Jan Van Eyck.
Program : here
Practical informations :
Important dates :
30 June 2012 end of the early inscription fee
31 August 2012 end of the inscription period
19-21 September 2012 colloquium
30 November 2012 deadline for submission of manuscript
Conference venue
The conference venue is located at five minutes’ walk from the KIK/IRPA building, easy accessible by public transport.
Address: Royal Military Academy, rue Hobbema 8, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Metro: line 1 and 5: get off at Merode or Schuman.
Bus: line 61 (between North Station and Montgomery): get off at Wappers.
Conference dinner
The conference dinner will be held on the evening of Thursday 20th September in the convivial surroundings of Le bouche à l’oreille, which is fifteen minutes walk from the conference venue, across the Cinquantenaire Park. Address: Le bouche à l’oreille, rue Felix Hap, 11, 1040 Brussels
The conference dinner will be held on the evening of Thursday 20th September in the convivial surroundings of Le bouche à l’oreille, which is fifteen minutes walk from the conference venue, across the Cinquantenaire Park. Address: Le bouche à l’oreille, rue Felix Hap, 11, 1040 Brussels
Registration Here
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