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The royal museums of art and history: the history of its buildings ans its collections based on the museum's archives (RMACH). University of Antwerp

Inge Bertels
Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences (ARCHES), Henry van de Velde
Leaving aside a handful of recent scientific articles, the only general publication on the history of the Royal Museums of Art and History (RMAH), its buildings and the development of its collections is a Liber Memorialis, published in 1985 on the occasion of the museum's 150th anniversary. While the latter publication was aimed at a general public, no other encompassing scientific and critical study on the history of the RMAH that attempts at ...

[Exhibition Project] James Ensor in context : Ensor and the history of European art from the collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
For the exhibition, Ensor in context, 73 paintings and 59 drawings from the Ensor collection of the KMSKA will travel around Japan through 17 March 2013. What makes the exhibition special and how does the Japanese museum culture differ from ours?

Japan has only relatively recently strongly embraced the modern museum culture, which in Europe is also only 250 years old. Thus was the Tokyo Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan (National Museum) ...

The organ history of the premonstratensian abbey of Averbode ca. 1434-2001. Six centuries of organ building art in Brabant. KU Leuven

David Burn
Musicology, Leuven

In the musicology of the Netherlands, the history of organ construction has its own place. For the Southern Netherlands, the organ history of the abbey of Averbode is particulary interesting. The size of the preserved old documents or the archive pieces go back to the fifteenth century. Other churches or abbeys also have valuable information, but it is often fragmented. Not only the size of the archives is important, but also the continuity. ...

A Belgian artist in Italy: Italian Art History and Culture in the work of Jan Vercruysse (1948-2018) Ghent University

Wouter Davidts
Department of Art, music and theatre sciences

This research will investigate the artistic, intellectual and institutional interaction between the Italian and Belgian art scene during the 1980s and 1990s. This broader exchange will be analysed through a profound study of the artist Jan Vercruysse (1948-2018). To this end, underexposed aspects of Belgian and Italian art of the last quarter of the 20th century will be reassessed.

Osaka Idols in the Brussels Limelight. The Belgian Reception of Kamigata-e and their late Acquisition by the Royal Museums of Art and History in a Western European Context KU Leuven

Jan Van der Stock
Art History, Leuven, Japanese Studies, Leuven

The principal objective of this project is a thorough investigation of the Belgian reception of kamigata-e and their relatively late acquisition by the Brussels Royal Museums of Art and History (henceforth RMAH).

It appears that during the fin de siècle kamigata-e were initially ignored by Belgian Japonisants, upstaged as they were by the prints produced in Edo. Despite the RMAH having laid the foundation of ...

Development and systemactic application of non-invasive spectroscopic imaging tools for technical art history and conservation of painted artworks (MACRO-IMAGING). University of Antwerp

Koen Janssens
Antwerp X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy (AXIS), AXES (Antwerp X-ray Analysis, Electrochemistry and Speciation)
The purpose of this project is the development and systematic application of non-invasive spectroscopic imaging tools for technical art history and conservation of painted artworks. As method of choice, macroscopic X-ray fluorescence will be employed, but also other methods. The imaging capabilities will be mostly used on works by Flemish artists present in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna.

Painters and Communities in Seventeenth-Century Brussels: A Social History of Art in a Digital Framework KU Leuven

Koenraad Brosens
Art History, Leuven

This dissertation describes in two parts the importance of social structures on the artistic production of seventeenth-century Brussels painters. The first part is quantitative and uses the custom-built Cornelia database to analyse a vast amount and wide array of serial archival data about the (social) lives and careers of all 349 master painters who were registered in Brussels Guild of Painters, Goldbeaters, and Stained-Glass Makers ...

In Search of Meaning: Thinking Information Visualization within Art History Research KU Leuven

Katrien Verbert, Jan Aerts
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Art History, Leuven, Leuven Statistics Research Centre (LStat)

This dissertation presents our work at the intersection of Art History (AH) and Information Visualization (InfoVis). In this text, we describe our efforts towards understanding the relationship between AH and InfoVis scholarship, along with conceptual and practical contributions to the growing interest in Digital Art History.
More concretely, this dissertation aims to answer the following research questions:

RQ1: How can we design ...

Understanding the technological and economical history of enigmatic green copper sulfate pigments in Flemish Renaissance art. University of Antwerp

Geert Van der Snickt
Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences (ARCHES)
The beginning of the 16th century marked the start of a prosperous time for Flanders with the flourishing of culture, trade and science directly reflected into the works of art of the Antwerp School. However, the year 1500 does not only mark a period of stylistic revolution, the works of art also change from a technological point of view with Flemish painters experimenting with innovative materials and techniques, an aspect that has remained ...