Netherlandish Art and Luxury Goods in Renaissance Spain
Trade, Patronage and Consumption
International conference
Initiated and organized by
Illuminare – Centre for the Study of Medieval Art | KU Leuven
www.illuminare.be
University of Leuven, Belgium, 04- 06.02.2016
In 2010, Illuminare – Centre for the Study of Medieval Art (KU Leuven)
acquired the archive of the eminent Belgian art historian professor Jan
Karel Steppe (1918-2009). Steppe is internationally renowned for his
groundbreaking research on the influx of Netherlandish art and luxury
goods in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Spain. By springtime 2016,
his documentation will be archived and the inventory made accessible
online. To celebrate this accomplishment, Illuminare is organizing an
international conference on Steppe’s long-term and much loved research
topic.
This conference will focus on a large variety of media, ranging from
painting and tapestry to broadcloth and astrolabes. Special attention
will be paid to the driving forces behind this export-driven market,
such as artists, patrons, collectors and merchants. By taking into
account cultural, religious, political and socio-economic dynamics,
this conference aims to shed new light on the multifaceted artistic
impact of the Low Countries on the Iberian Peninsula in the fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries.
We welcome 20-minute papers by established and early career scholars
that revisit or expand Steppe’s topics of research and, equally
important, enhance these with recent methodologies and theoretical
frameworks. The official language of the conference is English,
although papers in French might be taken into consideration. Proposals
of no more than 300 words and a brief CV should be submitted to drs.
Robrecht Janssen ([log in to unmask]) and drs. Daan van
Heesch ([log in to unmask]) by the 1st of October 2015.
Speakers will be invited to submit their papers for a peer-reviewed
publication on the topic.
Scientific committee
Barbara Baert (KU Leuven), Krista de Jonge (KU Leuven), Bart Fransen
(KIK-IRPA, Brussels), Robrecht Janssen (KU Leuven / KIK-IRPA,
Brussels), Maximiliaan Martens (Ghent University), Werner Thomas (KU
Leuven), Paul Vandenbroeck (Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp / KU
Leuven), Jan Van der Stock (KU Leuven), Daan van Heesch (KU Leuven),
Koenraad Van Cleempoel (Hasselt University), Annelies Vogels (KU
Leuven), Lieve Watteeuw (KU Leuven)
For more information, please visit the conference website:
https://netherlandishartinspain.wordpress.com/
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