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Exhibition 'Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden and the Discovery of the World'

In the 15th Century, humanity discovered the world, and itself. That is the image that is presented in Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden and the Discovery of the World. In this exhibition, contemporary scientists, historians, philosophers and publicists go in search of indications for this frame of mind in the forty or so Early Netherlandish paintings from the collections of the Royal Museum of...

Programme and 4 grants Summer Course

Several Flemish research centres, universities and art museums have collaborated in organizing the first Summer Course for the Study of the Arts in Flanders in 2015. Today the programme, the participation fee and grant possibilities are announced. The aim of the Summer Course is to bring a group of 18 select national and international, highly qualified young researchers to Flanders annually. The...

Summer Course: participation fee and grants

The Summer course for the study of the arts in Flanders is a joint initiative of the Flemish Art Collection, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, the Groeninge Museum Bruges, the University of Ghent, the Catholic University of Louvain, the Rubenianum and the Flemish Research Centre for the Arts in the Burgundian Netherlands. The first edition of the summer course titled The age of van Eyck in...

Hans Memling, 'Man with a Roman coin', KMSKA, Antwerp.

Exhibition 'Memling. Rinascimento Fiammingo'

The exhibition Memling. Rinascimento Fiammingo (Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome) sets out to provide the audience the opportunity, for the very first time in Italy, to gain an insight into the art of Hans Memling (circa 1435-1494). Hans Memling was the most important painter in Bruges between 1465 and 1494. The exhibition is curated by Till-Holger Borchert, chief curator of the Groeninge Museum in...

Carved Flemish Altarpieces in Spain

‘Part of this absolutely exceptional production of altarpieces, renowned not only for its quantity, but also for its quality, was manufactured in series and mainly came from the two outstanding artistic centres in the Duchy of Brabant: Brussels was the main production centre in the XV century and, from the 1500s, the city shared its leading role with altarpiece manufacture in Antwerp which, in...

Intermediary results restoration Ghent Altarpiece

On 20 June 2014, the conservation-restoration team, along with professors from the University of Ghent and Leuven, put forward the intermediary results for the restoration of the Ghent Altarpiece in the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent. The restoration and conservation campaign for the Ghent Altarpiece (1432), the masterpiece of the Brothers van Eyck began in October 2012. The restoration studio is...

First edition of the Summer Course

The Groeninge Museum in Bruges and the Flemish Research Centre for the arts in the Burgundian Netherlands coordinate the first edition of the Summer Course for the Study of the Arts in Flanders. The summer course is a joint initiative. The aim of the summer course is to bring to Flanders, annually, a select group of 18 national and international, highly qualified young researchers. They will be...

Ghent Altarpiece International Study Day

The Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK/IRPA) and the University of Ghent (UGent) are honoured to announce the Ghent Altarpiece International Study Day that will take place in Ghent on 10 September 2014. This is one day before the renowned Symposium XIX for the Study of Underdrawing and Technology in Painting in Bruges (11-13 September 2014). The day is intended for art-historians,...

Musea Brugge Research School

The Flemish Research Centre for the Arts in the Burgundian Netherlands is organising the first edition of its Museum Research School in 2014-2015. The innovative formula of this Musea Brugge Research School allows motivated art history students to study 15th and 16th century art works from the Bruges museum collections in depth, as part of a select group of other students, docents, and curators...

Brothers Van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece, 1432, Saint-Bavo Cathedral, Ghent.

Elisabeth Dhanens is Deceased

Art Historian Dr. Elisabeth Dhanens passed away on 11 March 2014 at the age of ninety-eight. Dhanens was a doctor in the history of Art. From 1946 until 1952, she was associated with the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage in Brussels. She was the inspector of art patrimony with the provincial government of East Flanders from 1952 until 1976. Dhanens was an honourary member of the Royal Flemish...

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