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Paul Vandenbroeck

Function: 
Scientific assistant
Institution: 
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Post: 
Plaatsnijdersstraat 2 2000 Antwerp
Telephone: 
0032 32 387809

Education: 

Master's Degree earned:

  • Archaeology and Art History, K.U. Leuven, 1976

Thesis: Jheronimus Bosch' drieluik van de zgn. Tuin der Lusten

Doctoral Degree earned:

  • Doctor of Art History, K.U. Leuven, 1986

Dissertation: Jheronimus Bosch

Field of Research: 

  • Values and conventions in Hieronymus Bosch
  • Iconology and meaning creation (symbolic/subsymbolic)
  • Artistic-cultural syncretism

Publications: 

  • Paul Vandenbroeck, De eeuw der Vlaamse Primitieven (Late-Medieval Art in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp), Schoten, BAI, 2014.
  • Paul Vandenbroeck, Jheronimus Bosch: De verlossing van de wereld, Ghent, Ludion, 2003.
  • Paul Vandenbroeck, Azetta. Berbervrouwen en hun kunst, Ghent-Brussels, Ludion/Centre for Fine Arts, 2000. (French edition as well)
  • Paul Vandenbroeck, De kleuren van de geest. Dans en trance in Afro-Europese tradities, Ghent, Snoeck-Ducaju, 1997. (French edition as well)
  • Paul Vandenbroeck, Hooglied. De beeldwereld van religieuze vrouwen in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden vanaf de 13e eeuw, Brussels-Ghent, Centre for Fine Arts/Snoeck-Ducaju, 1994. (French edition as well)
  • Paul Vandenbroeck, Beeld van de andere, vertoog over het zelf, Antwerp, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, 1987.

Projects: Exhibitions: 

  • Genesis and trajetory of the aesthetic creation.
  • Berbers, Flemings, Castilians: art of the Flemish Primitives and religious-cultural syncretism on the Canary Islands (since 2003).

Relevant memberships/workgroups: 

  • Honorary member of the Central Commission of the Royal Commission for Monuments and Landscapes
  • Scientific publisher of the renewed Jaarboek of the KMSKA, now published as the Antwerp Royal Museum Annual
  • Radical HeArts, Kortrijk
  • Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts, Art Class