Program and presentation Ards

1. 3rd Annual Scholar’s Day
Current Research on Medieval Sculpture
Medieval Sculpture Production Centres
23 November 2016

2. Programme Session 1 : 9.30 – 11.00
chair: Michael Rief, Head of Collections, Suermondt-Ludwig Museum Aachen
• 09:00 Registration and coffee
• 09:30 Welcome by dr. PETER VANDEN BRINK (Director Aachen City Museums)
and dr. PETER CARPREAU (Chief Curator Old Master Museum M Leuven)
• 09:45 Drs. EMILIO RUIZ DE ARCAUTE MARTÍNEZ (Universidad de Sevilla)
Less is more. The economy of means in the production of the sculpture workshops of Brussels
in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries
• 10:05 Dr. DENISE BORLEE (Université de Strasbourg)
About the Use of Models in Gothic Sculpture : a Drawing of Villard de Honnecourt for an
Experimental Art History Test
• 10:25 Dra. CHRISTEL THEUNISSEN (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Late medieval choir stall makers of the Low Countries: skilled craftsmen and smart project
managers
• 10:45 Discussion
• 11:00 Coffee break

3. Programme Session II: 11.00 – 12.45
chair: Michael Rief, Head of Collections, Suermondt-Ludwig Museum Aachen
•11:30 ALETH LORNE (Sculpture Conservator)
The polychromy of the Renaissance reliefs from the Saint-Martin Church in Doorn.
•11.50 Dr. JULIA TRINKERT (Institut für Kunstgeschichte Heinrich-Heine-Universität
Düsseldorf)
Sculpture Production Centres in Mecklenburg during the Late Middle Ages
•10:25 Dra. OLGA M. HAJDUK (The Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
The Artist as an Entrepreneur in early modern Poland. Santi Gucci Fiorentino’s workshop.
•12:30 Discussion
•12:45 Lunch break

4. Have a good lunch!
See you back at 14.30

5. Programme Session 2: 14.30 – 17.00
chair: Marjan Debaene, Head of Collections, Museum M Leuven
• 14:30 Poster Presentations
– LARS HENDRIKMAN (Curator Old Masters Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht)
• The Master of Elsloo
– SYLVIA PEDONE (Istanbul, Koç University - Stavros Niarchos Foundation/Center of
Late Antique and Byzantine Studies)
• What Is The Color Of The Byzantine Sculpture?
• 14:45 Attribution sessions
• 16:30 Dra. MARJAN DEBAENE (Head of Collections M Leuven / Coördinator
Ards)
Ards yearly overview, news and future plans
Conference Conclusions
• 17:00 Closing reception (until 18h)
+ free visit to Suermondt-Ludwig Museum (until 20h)

6. Ards Yearly Overview 2016

7. Throwback to last year…
On november 26th 2016 I presented:

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Keywords:
Improvement & Growth

12. Improvement & Growth: Network

13. Improvement & Growth: Network
• Database of contacts: 799
– November 2015: 643 (ca. 250 – specifically active in/on sculpture)
– growth of the network: 25% in one year.
• 90 new subscriptions via website www.ards.be : 58 %
– Mostly Belgium (30%)
– Newsletters: 3/year (winter, summer, fall) + extra reminders
• Linkedin group: 49 members
– Not (yet) very active
– Goal: discussion, research questions, announcements, networking

14. Improvement & Growth: Knowledge Centre

15. Improvement & Growth: Knowledge Centre
• Improve and enhance registration and physical filing system
• Adding keywords to existing book registration
• Repacking
• Digitising
• Volunteers / Internships (1/year) (2016 = 470 hr.)
• Collect, register and add more documentation
• Actively prospecting
• Receptively: Open Call for (Research) documentation donations
• 2016: 108 new documentation records
• Yearly (small) budget for library purchases.
• Additions to our medieval sculpture library section in 2016: 50+ (incl.
donations)

16. Improvement & Growth: website www.ards.be

17. Improvement & Growth: website www.ards.be
• Actively prospecting scientific and exhibition calendars
• Announcements, call for papers and/or colloquium programs in EU and USA
• Up-to-date exhibition and event calendar (past, present and future)
 21 newsitems
 107 calendar events (1962-2016)
• Adding publications to our ‘master’
bibliography
 488 publications
 Coming soon: links to worldcat
• Expanding our network partners
• 2016: 172
• Still lacking info on projects: open call
• Improving
• Correcting or completing existing data
• Optimizing website interface

18. Future plans

19. Future plans
• Summer Course for the study of the arts in
Flanders: Medieval and Renaissance sculpture
in the Low Countries
• June 18th-June 28th 2017
• Exclusive visits (f.i. Mechelen, Bruges, Antwerp, Amsterdam,
Utrecht, Maastricht, Aachen, Liège, Zoutleeuw and Brussels)
• Lectures (Aleksandra Lipinskà, Matt Kavaler, …)
• www.summercourse.eu
• Deadline: 30 nov. 2016

20. Future plans
• 4th Annual Study Day
• Date: 3rd week of november 2017
• Theme: Collecting Medieval Sculpture
• Call for papers: Summer 2017
• Location: ???

22. Future plans?

23. Future plans?
• ‘Early Netherlandish Sculpture’
• Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Low
Countries
• Publication series (examples: Early Netherlandish
Painting-Friedländer, Corpus Flemish Primitives,
Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchardt)
• Questions:
– Period: 1000-1566?
– Conceptual: what is ‘sculpture’ ?
– Monographical? Difficult for this period  Geographical?
– Public collections vs. Private collections?
– Practical

24. Lastly… some closing remarks

25. Feedback? Suggestions?
• Any feedback, comments, suggestions?
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