Tacit knowledge and sensory experience in a sixteenth-century gold and silversmithing workshop
VISU member Hanne Schonkeren will be presenting her research at the 36th Congress of the Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art, hosted in Lyon, 23 - 28 June 2024.
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Study day 'Making a Market for Art from the Low Countries in the Americas'
VISU member Tom Packet will participate in the Study Day 'Making a Market for Art from the Low Countries in the Americas'. He will present his research 'Selling Art in St.
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New Lecture Series: "Ties That Bind Us: Transcultural Perspectives On Social Forms"
VUB research groups CLIC and VISU are pleased to announce a new lecture series at the Faculty of Languages and Humanities at Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
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Unknown 16th-century engravings published by Pieter Martens
Two extremely rare and previously unknown engravings have been studied for the first time by VISU director Pieter Martens. Both prints survive in a single impression only and were unpublished until now.
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Job vacancy
The VUB is currently recruiting a Professor in Modern and Contemporary Art within the faculty of Languages and Humanities.
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PhD opportunity at VISU
Research Group VISU (Histories of Art, Architecture and Visual Culture) is looking for a PhD student with a doctoral grant, to be part of the four-year research project “Flanders in Florence: Architectural Exchanges from North to South, 1400-1600”.
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Panel discussion 'Beeldspraak'
VISU member Brenda Bikoko will participate in a panel discussion to kick off the project 'Beeldspraak', organized on April 1, at 2 PM.
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Call for papers "Craft and craftsmanship in the seventeenth-century Netherlands"
VISU member Marlise Rijks will be co-hosting the annual conference of the Seventeenth Century Working Group, which will take place in Antwerp on Friday, August 30, 2024.
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Cultural Transfers from the Low Countries to Florence
VISU director Pieter Martens and member Caterina Cardamone will attend the Renaissance Society of America's annual meeting, scheduled to take place in Chicago in March 2024.
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Guest lecture Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans at the University of Ca'Foscari in Venice
On February 19, VISU member Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans gave a guest lecture at the University of Ca'Foscari in Venice. This event was part of the exchange with Prof. dr. Miriam De Rosa (Ca'Foscari) supported by the EUTOPIA LW Grant.
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Guest lecture Marije Osnabrugge (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): Van keukentje tot cortegaerdje: genres in de vroegmoderne Zuid- en Noord-Nederlandse kunst.
On Tuesday, December 5, from 12.00 to 14.00, in room L.2.03, Marije Osnabrugge will give a guest lecture entitled: Van keukentje tot cortegaerdje: genres in de vroegmoderne Zuid- en Noord-Nederlandse kunst.
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Public meeting on the Congolines research project
VISU member Ophélie Laloy will take part in the public meeting on the Congolines research project, scheduled on Saturday, November 25 from 2 pm at KBR.
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