3rd Annual Scholar’s Day Current Research on Medieval SculptureMedieval Sculpture Production Centres

23 November 2016

Programme Session 1 : 9.30 – 11.00chair: Michael Rief, Head of Collections, Suermondt-Ludwig Museum Aachen• 09:00 Registration and coffee

• 09:30 Welcome by dr. PETER VANDEN BRINK (Director Aachen City Museums) and dr. PETER CARPREAU (Chief Curator Old Master Museum M Leuven)

• 09:45 Drs. EMILIO RUIZ DE ARCAUTE MARTÍNEZ (Universidad de Sevilla)Less is more. The economy of means in the production of the sculpture workshops of Brussels in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries

• 10:05 Dr. DENISE BORLEE (Université de Strasbourg)About the Use of Models in Gothic Sculpture : a Drawing of Villard de Honnecourt for an Experimental Art History Test

• 10:25 Dra. CHRISTEL THEUNISSEN (Radboud University Nijmegen)Late medieval choir stall makers of the Low Countries: skilled craftsmen and smart project managers

• 10:45 Discussion• 11:00 Coffee break

Programme Session II: 11.00 – 12.45chair: Michael Rief, Head of Collections, Suermondt-Ludwig Museum Aachen

•11:30 ALETH LORNE (Sculpture Conservator)The polychromy of the Renaissance reliefs from the Saint-Martin Church in Doorn.  

•11.50 Dr. JULIA TRINKERT (Institut für Kunstgeschichte Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)Sculpture Production Centres in Mecklenburg during the Late Middle Ages

•10:25 Dra. OLGA M. HAJDUK (The Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences)The Artist as an Entrepreneur in early modern Poland. Santi Gucci Fiorentino’s workshop.

•12:30 Discussion

•12:45 Lunch break

Have a good lunch!See you back at 14.30

Programme Session 2: 14.30 – 17.00chair: Marjan Debaene, Head of Collections, Museum M Leuven

• 14:30 Poster Presentations– LARS HENDRIKMAN (Curator Old Masters Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht)

• The Master of Elsloo

– SYLVIA PEDONE (Istanbul, Koç University - Stavros Niarchos Foundation/Center of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies)

• What Is The Color Of The Byzantine Sculpture?

• 14:45 Attribution sessions

• 16:30 Dra. MARJAN DEBAENE (Head of Collections M Leuven / Coördinator Ards) Ards yearly overview, news and future plansConference Conclusions

• 17:00 Closing reception (until 18h) + free visit to Suermondt-Ludwig Museum (until 20h)

Ards Yearly Overview 2016

Throwback to last year…On november 26th 2016 I presented:

Throwback to last year…

Throwback to last year…

Throwback to last year…

Throwback to last year…

Keywords: Improvement & Growth

Improvement & Growth: Network

Improvement & Growth: Network

• Database of contacts: 799 – November 2015: 643 (ca. 250 – specifically active in/on

sculpture)– growth of the network: 25% in one year.

• 90 new subscriptions via website www.ards.be : 58 %– Mostly Belgium (30%)– Newsletters: 3/year (winter, summer, fall) + extra reminders

• Linkedin group: 49 members– Not (yet) very active – Goal: discussion, research questions, announcements,

networking

Improvement & Growth: Knowledge Centre

Improvement & Growth: Knowledge Centre

• Improve and enhance registration and physical filing system

• Adding keywords to existing book registration • Repacking• Digitising • Volunteers / Internships (1/year) (2016 = 470 hr.)

• Collect, register and add more documentation• Actively prospecting• Receptively: Open Call for (Research) documentation donations• 2016: 108 new documentation records

• Yearly (small) budget for library purchases.• Additions to our medieval sculpture library section in 2016: 50+

(incl. donations)

Improvement & Growth: website www.ards.be

Improvement & Growth: website www.ards.be

• Actively prospecting scientific and exhibition calendars• Announcements, call for papers and/or colloquium programs in EU and USA • Up-to-date exhibition and event calendar (past, present and future)

21 newsitems 107 calendar events (1962-2016)

• Adding publications to our ‘master’ bibliography

488 publications Coming soon: links to worldcat

• Expanding our network partners• 2016: 172• Still lacking info on projects: open call

• Improving• Correcting or completing existing data • Optimizing website interface

Future plans

Future plans

• Summer Course for the study of the arts in Flanders: Medieval and Renaissance sculpture in the Low Countries

• June 18th-June 28th 2017 • Exclusive visits (f.i. Mechelen, Bruges, Antwerp,

Amsterdam, Utrecht, Maastricht, Aachen, Liège, Zoutleeuw and Brussels)

• Lectures (Aleksandra Lipinskà, Matt Kavaler, …)• www.summercourse.eu• Deadline: 30 nov. 2016

Future plans

• 4th Annual Study Day• Date: 3rd week of november 2017• Theme: Collecting Medieval Sculpture• Call for papers: Summer 2017• Location: ???

Future plans?

Future plans?• ‘Early Netherlandish Sculpture’

• Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Low Countries

• Publication series (examples: Early Netherlandish Painting-Friedländer, Corpus Flemish Primitives, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchardt)

• Questions: – Period: 1000-1566?– Conceptual: what is ‘sculpture’ ?– Monographical? Difficult for this period Geographical? – Public collections vs. Private collections?– Practical

Lastly… some closing remarks

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