Projects
Antwerp Tenebrism in a New Light. Zooming in and out on Stylistic Influences and Social Interactions in Seventeenth-Century Flemish Painting. KU Leuven
Art historical research on seventeenth-century art in Antwerp mostly focuses on big players such as Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Antoon Van Dyck (1599-1641) and Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678). Lesser-known contemporaries producing paintings in a derivate style or even completely different styles or genres, as well as their correlations, often remain un(der)studied. As part of project Coral. The interplay between social structure, collaboration ...
With theatre he urged people to remember their duties. Social Criticism in the Seventeenth-Century Theatre of the Low Countries. University of Antwerp
Frivolity in church. A study of the cultural transfer of French air de cour melodies into sacred songbooks in the seventeenth-century Southern Low Countries. University of Antwerp
Painters and Communities in Seventeenth-Century Brussels: A Social History of Art in a Digital Framework KU 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 ...
'With his theatre he urged people to remember their duties'. Social Criticism in the Seventeenth-Century Theatre of the Low Countries. University of Antwerp
Fresh verse from the garden. Petrus Hondius’ poetic directions through the seventeenth-century landscape Ghent University
This exhibition lets visitors explore local seventeenth-century garden culture while reflecting on their own ideas about the garden and landscape today. One of the first Dutch 'garden poems' - the so-called 'hofdichten' - serves as a starting point. In ‘De Moufe-schans’ (1621), Petrus Hondius describes his search for a life in the garden to escape the hustle and bustle of the city. He not only paints a unique picture of rich garden life in ...
Friendship across divides. A literary exploration of friendship and equality in seventeenth-century France Ghent University
All subjects ‘of whatever state or quality’ should ‘live together peacefully as friends’: the Edict of Nantes (1598) not only establishes religious tolerance, it calls for friendship among non-peers. Correspondences and treatises on friendship show how social interaction in absolutist France was profoundly changing: new court and salon societies bring together men and women, king and subordinates, moralists and libertines. Yet, literary ...
The idea of distributive justice in seventeenth-century moral and political philosophy. KU Leuven
How to divide things fairly? Philosophers have been pondering this question under the heading of ‘distributive justice’ at least since Aristotle. It has recently been argued that the meaning of this term changed dramatically in the last 200 years.Today, distributive justice deals primarily with the fair division of benefits and burdens arising from social cooperation. It gives citizens a right to material goods based on need or effort. Yet ...