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Roger Van Schoute passed away on 10 May 2017. Van Schoute was born in 1930. He held a doctorate in Art History and was Emeritus Professor at the Catholic University in Leuven. Van Schoute was a widely respected art historian and researcher. In the 1960's, he established the Laboratoire d'études des oeuvres d'art (Musée de Louvain-la-Neuve) and was the driving force behind the symposium l'Étude du dessin sous-jacent et des technologies de la peinture (since 1975). Van Schoute examined the oeuvre of Jheronimus Bosch (circa 1450-1516) with scientific methods, being one of the first art historians to do so.
(News item May 23, 2017)