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Codex Eyckensis KU Leuven
Paragone, Pathosformel, and Petrification, in Niobes KU Leuven
The point of departure for this chapter is the centerpiece of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (6.146–312): Niobe’s transformation into a weeping rock. Niobe’s transformation incorporates the form and matter of the medium of sculpture. According to the humanist paragone debate, painting and sculpture compete to be the medium with the highest qualities of virtuosity. In the first part of the chapter, I explore the iconographic deployment of Niobe in the ...
Compendium Questionnaires KU Leuven
viewpoints, and they have been pivotal in the many scholarly movements, or “turns”, attempting to methodologically reframe the study of art history in general. Can you briefly explain which was your original focus of interest and in which directions your scholarly approach developed over the course of time? In 2004, at the beginning of my academic career, I became involved in an interdisciplinary research program on one verse: John 20, 17. The ...
De facsimile-uitgave van de veertiende-eeuwse Bijbel van Anjou KU Leuven
Op vraag van het prestigieuze Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana – Treccani werd in 2022 een luxueuze facsimile gemaakt van de veertiende-eeuwse Napolitaanse Bijbel van Anjou ‘La Bibbia d'Angio’, bewaard in de Maurits Sabbebibliotheek. De Bijbel van Anjou is een imposant manuscript van bijna 700 jaar oud en is vanuit cultureel, historisch en kunsthistorisch oogpunt van onschatbare waarde.
All that glitters is not gold: Unraveling the material secrets behind the preservation of historical brass KU Leuven
Brass is a relatively stable alloy but it tends to tarnish over time due to the interaction with the atmosphere. Thus, it is rare to observe centuries-old brass objects untouched by the passing of time. For this reason, the pristine appearance of hundreds of brass sequins in the Enclosed Gardens of Mechelen (reliquary altarpieces produced between 1530 and 1550) is remarkable. In this study, the chemical and metallographic characterization of ...
The Incipit Miniature of the Morgan Gospel of John KU Leuven
In this paper, I explore the iconographical relationship between the letters and the support on fol. 157r of the Morgan Gospels, written and illuminated in Westphalia, Germany during the mid-tenth century. On the basis of its formal properties and the iconographic meaning it takes, I will give particular attention to the materiality of the Latin text and its cultural and symbolic significance. The folio under study develops a form of ‘agency’. ...
Kairos and Metanoia. Rethinking the Right Moment in Early Christian Art KU Leuven
The ancient Greeks’ concept of the joy as well as the sorrow of the unique occasion that swiftly presents itself, but just as swiftly disappears, has an interesting Nachleben in art, theology, and philosophy, and represents the unique chance to grasp, the «critical moment» for a certain action, the fate that swiftly passes in order to change the course of (life)time. Indeed, «there are processes of nature which, though determined in accordance ...