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 Both prints survive in a single impression only and were unpublished until now.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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Book presentation 'Betrachtungen ueber die Kunst unserer Zeit'
VISU member Caterina Cardamone presents her book on the unpublished writings of Josef Frank in Vienna on November 23, 2023.
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Ariella Aïsha Azoulay: Museums in Europe are not European - Unlearning Together at Their Thresholds
Prof. Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans participates in a panel discussion with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay after her lecture in Brussels on 19 October, 2023.
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Roger Raveel’s attempts towards an engaged aesthetics of complexity
PhD student Senne Schraeyen participates in the workshop Ecology, Aesthetics and Everyday Cultures of Modernity in Munich on 11 July 2023.
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