16 Octobre 2026
Museum of Fine Arts
Ghent

On the occasion of the retirement of Prof. dr. Maximiliaan Martens, the Department of Theatre, Music and Art Sciences cordially invites colleagues and friends to discuss art historical research inspired by the many fields to which Maximiliaan Martens contributed.

Programme :

9u 00 : Registration and coffee
10u15 : Welcome (Frederica Van Dam)

10u30 : Jan van Eyck and Paris (Till-Holger Borchert)
11u00 : Mirror and Blind Spot: The Arnolfini Portrait in the Eyes of Johan Huizinga (Bernhard Ridderbos)
11u30 : Coffee break

12u00 : Painters and Urban Politics in the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries (Jan Dumolyn)
12u30 : From Van Eyck to Bruegel (Manfred Sellink)
13u00 : Lunch

14u00 : The Ghent Altarpiece: Composition in Perspective (Patrick Seurinck)
14u30 : Two Remarks on Jan van Eyck’s Washington Annunciation (Stephan Kemperdick)
15u00 : Coffee break

15u30 : Laudatio (Maryan Ainsworth)
16u15 : Farewell (Gita Deneckere)

16u30 : Reception
17u30: End