Abstracts of Amsterdam 2010 Conference Papers

Thursday, May 27, 2010

PARAGONE, SYMBIOSIS: RELATIONS BETWEEN PAINTING AND SCULPTURE IN NETHERLANDISH ART
Chair: Lynn F. Jacobs (University of Arkansas)

  • Early Netherlandish Painting and Sculpture: A Paragone?
    Kim W. Woods, Open University
  • Designs for Sculpture: A New Look at Drawings from Rogier van der Weyden’s Workshop
    Bart Fransen, KIK/IRPA, Brussels
  • Something Old, Something New: Classical Sculpture as an Impetus for New Artistic Ideas in Sixteenth-Century Flemish Art
    Natasja Peeters, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels and Koninklijk Museum van het Leger en de Krijgsgeschiedenis, Brussels
  • Painter-Sculptor Collaboration vs. Competition in Seventeenth-Century Antwerp
    Léon E. Lock, Independent Scholar, Brussels

CULTURAL TRANSMISSION AND ARTISTIC EXCHANGES IN THE LOW COUNTRIES DURING THE LONG SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Chairs: Karolien De Clippel (Universiteit Utrecht) and Filip Vermeylen (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam)

  • Local Landscapes at a Crossroads: Claes Visscher’s 1612 Copies of the Small Landscape Prints
    Alexandra Onuf, University of Hartford
  • Frans Hals van Antwerpen: A Case Study in Dutch-Flemish Artistic and Cultural Exchange
    Christopher Atkins, Queens College and The Graduate Center, New York
  • Going South: Selling Flemish Art to Dutchmen and Dutchmen Selling Flemish Art to Flemings
    Kerry Noelle Barrett, New York University, Abu Dhabi
  • Exchanging Works of Art between Courtly Neighbours: Brussels and The Hague (1600-1695)
    Veerle De Laet , Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

GLOBAL BAROQUE: THE NETHERLANDISH IMAGE IN ASIA, AFRICA AND THE AMERICAS
Chair: Mia M. Mochizuki (Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley and Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley)

  • At Home in Bijapur: Cornelis Claesz. Heda and Dutch Art in India
    Rebecca Tucker, Colorado College
  • The Poetry of Netherlandish Prints in Early Modern China
    Dawn Odell, Lewis and Clark College
  • "How Tasty Was My Flemish Man": Karel van Mander’s Concepts of ‘Nae het leven’ and ‘Uyt den gheest’ and the Depiction of ‘Cannibals’ and Native Indians in Dutch Brazil
    Ricardo De Mambro Santos, Willamette University
  • Fortifying the Global Baroque: Dutch Forts as Lieux de Mémoire
    Julie Hochstrasser, University of Iowa

SESSION IN HONOUR OF CAROL PURTLE
Chair: Diane Wolfthal (Rice University, Houston)

  • Looking with Jan van Eyck and Robert Campin: The Painter’s Perspective
    Joaneath Spicer, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
  • Jan van Eyck’s lost Virgin and Child with Canon Nicolas van Maelbeke Reconsidered
    Till-Holger Borchert, Groeningemuseum, Bruges
  • The Arenberg Lamentation Reconsidered
    Yao-Fen You, Detroit Institute of Art
  • Unveiling the Veil. A Study into the Making and Meaning of Painted Semitransparent Textiles: Italy and the Low Countries, 1400-1500
    Marjolijn Bol, Universiteit Utrecht

ANTWERP AND ITS BOUNDARIES 1550-1570
Chairs: Ethan Matt Kavaler (University of Toronto) and Todd Richardson (University of Memphis)

  • Frans Floris’s Italian Travels and the Transformation of Art in Antwerp
    Edward Wouk, Harvard University
  • Italianate Netherlandish Art or Netherlandish Italianate Art: Some Notes on the Paradox of Talent
    Koenraad Jonckheere, Universiteit van Amsterdam
  • Producing the Vernacular: Antwerp, Cultural Archaeology and the Figure of the Peasant
    Stephanie Porras, Courtauld Institute of Art
  • Drinking with the Prodigal – Jan van Hemessen’s Brothel Scenes and Italian Art Theory
    Bertram Kaschek, Technische Universität Dresden

MUNICH AT THE CROSSROADS: FOREIGN ARTISTS IN COUNTER-REFORMATION BAVARIA
Chair: Susan Maxwell (University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh)

  • The Impact of Dürer on the Art Scene in Munich around 1600
    Anja Grebe, Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg
  • Hendrick Goltzius’s Visit to Munich
    Dorothy Limouze, St. Lawrence University
  • To ‘Inflame a Love of Virtue’: Christoph Schwarz’s Mary Altarpiece for the Jesuit College in Munich
    Jeffrey Chipps Smith, University of Texas at Austin
  • Italian Artists at the Munich Court
    Dorothea Diemer, Universität Augsburg

SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS OF ART MARKETS AND ART WORLDS IN THE LOW COUNTRIES
Chairs: Marten Jan Bok (Universiteit van Amsterdam) and Harm Nijboer (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

  • Social Ties, Professional Benefits: Abraham Bloemaert (1566-1651) and Artistic Collaboration in Utrecht
    Elizabeth Nogrady, New York University
  • History Painting with Biblical Subjects and Their Owners
    Frauke Laarmann, Universiteit van Amsterdam
  • Mapping Demand: Art Consumption of Nobles and Would-Be Nobles in Fifteenth-Century Flanders
    Jessica Buskirk, Technische Universität Dresden, and Frederik Buylaert, Universiteit Gent
  • Rembrandt’s Gifts: A Case Study of Actor Network Theory
    Michael Zell, Boston University

Friday, May 28, 2010

COLLECTING AND DISPLAYING DUTCH AND FLEMISH ART IN GERMAN PRINCELY RESIDENCES
Chair: Gero Seelig (Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Schwerin)

  • Collecting and Displaying Dutch and Flemish Art in the Imperial Collections of Leopold I: Kunstkammer, Treasury, and Picture Gallery
    Gerlinde Gruber, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
  • Dutch Brazil in the Princely Kunst- und Wunderkammer: Civilization and Culture on a Carved Coconut Cup
    Virginie Spenlé, Kunstkammer Georg Laue, Munich
  • From Church to Collection: Flemish Altarpieces in the Gallery of Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz
    Esther Meier, Technische Universität, Dortmund

THRESHOLDS – PORTALS – PORCHES – GATES. FACING SPATIAL BOUNDARIES IN EARLY MODERN AMSTERDAM
Chair: Freek Schmidt (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

  • Suspensions in Space: Sight, the Body and Liminality in Painted Church Interiors of Amsterdam
    Candace Huey, Academy of Art University, San Francisco
  • The Disappearance of the Choir in Protestant Church Architecture and the Cases of the Amsterdam Zuiderkerk and Westerkerk
    Joris Snaet, Antwerp
  • Off Limits: Pieter de Hooch in (and outside) Delft and Amsterdam
    Frans Grijzenhout, Universiteit van Amsterdam
  • Building Up and Tearing Down: Images of Demolished Buildings and Their Role in Defining Urban Identity
    Michelle V. Packer, University of California, Santa Barbara

BENDING AND BREACHING THE BOUNDARIES OF GENDER
Chair: Martha Moffitt Peacock (Brigham Young University)

  • A Priestly Vocation for the Mother of God: Blurring Gender Boundaries in Northern Renaissance Visual Culture
    Elliott Wise, Emory University
  • The Nun that Rocked the Cradle: Devotional Cradles as Markers of Female Prestige in the Late Middle Ages
    Rebecca Findlay Lloyd, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
  • Gerard Hoet’s Portrait of Anna Elisabeth van Reede and the Construction of Identity
    Ellen O’Neil Rife, University of Kansas
  • Bending and Breaching the Boundaries of Flower Painting: An Investigation into the Careers of Hans Simon Holtzbecker and Maria Sibylla Merian, Two Unusual Flower Painters
    Hanne Kolind Poulsen, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

MANIPULATING THE OBJECT: SIMULTANEOUS READINGS AND EXPERIENCES
Chairs: Anne Margreet As-Vijvers (Universiteit van Amsterdam) and Margaret Goehring (New Mexico State University)

  • Images that Come to Life: Miracles of the Virgin and the Vierges ouvrantes
    Anna Russakoff, American University of Paris
  • Experiencing Gold in Early Netherlandish Paintings
    Jeanne Nuechterlein, University of York
  • Relational Experience, Tapestry, and Animation
    James J. Bloom, Vanderbilt University
  • Beyond the Borders: Seeing/Reading the Gheeraerts Map of Bruges
    Erin Webster, University of Toronto at Scarborough

TRANSGRESSING MATERIALS
Chairs: Ann-Sophie Lehmann (Universiteit Utrecht), Maximiliaan P. J. Martens (Universiteit Gent) and Jeroen Stumpel (Universiteit Utrecht)

  • The Print and the Plate: From Silver to Copper and Back
    Joris Van Grieken, Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België, Prentenkabinet
  • Quinten Metsys and the Dynamics of Vision
    Annick Born, Universiteit Gent
  • Bruegel's Transgressions: Watercolor and Oil in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp
    Odilia Bonebakker, Harvard University
  • On reflexykonst and the Aesthetics of Transformation in Still Life
    Celeste Brusati, University of Michigan

LANGUAGES OF ART IN THE NETHERLANDS, 1550-1750
Chair: Thijs Weststeijn (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

  • Touching Up on Our Understanding of geretuckeert by and around Rembrandt
    Paul Crenshaw, Providence College
  • The Concept of reddering in Seventeenth-Century Painting: Theory and Practice
    Ulrike Kern, Warburg Institute, London
  • "Proteus oft Vertumnus te wesen in de Const": Erasmus, Goltzius and Van Mander on the Problem of Artistic Imitation
    Jürgen Müller, Technische Universität Dresden
  • "In sensus cadentem imaginem": Defining the Apprehensible Image in Cornelis Galle's Life of Blessed Father Ignatius of Loyola of 1610
    Walter S. Melion, Emory University

POROUS BORDERS: THE DUTCH REPUBLIC AND EUROPE
Chair: Amy Golahny (Lycoming College)

  • A Courtly Art Comes to The Hague: Portrait Miniatures at the Court of Elizabeth of Bohemia
    Marjorie E. Wieseman, The National Gallery, London
  • Giovanni Panini in the Tradition of the Dutch Italianates
    Anne Charlotte Steland, Independent Scholar, Göttingen
  • Grand Tour avant la Lettre? Hoogstraten in England
    Fatma Yalçin, Freie Universität Berlin
  • "Not curious but courtly in appearance": Cornelis de Bruyn (1652-1726), Dutch Artist and International Traveler
    Rebecca Parker Brienen, University of Miami, Coral Gables

THE SHIFTING BOUNDARIES OF MUSEUM COLLECTING AND DISPLAY IN THE NETHERLANDS (1800 TO THE PRESENT)
Chairs: Ellinoor S. Bergvelt (Universiteit van Amsterdam) and Jonathan Bikker (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)

  • Dutch and Flemish Art in the Nineteenth-Century National Museums of The Netherlands (Amsterdam) and Belgium (Antwerp and Brussels)
    Leen Kelchtermans, KU Leuven
  • The Plans of the Dutch Royal Society of Antiquaries for an "Amsterdam Museum", 1877-1880
    Renée Kistemaker, Amsterdams Historisch Museum
  • Foreign Masters in Dutch Museums: by Choice or Chance?
    Friso Lammertse, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
  • Theophile Thoré (William Bürger) and the Borders of the Netherlands
    Ellinoor S. Bergvelt, Universiteit van Amsterdam

 

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