The Faculty of Design Sciences of the University of Antwerp offers an intensive 5-day programme on black coloured art materials. Scholars with theoretical and practical expertise in historical art technology will guide you. Participants will receive an introduction to reading, interpreting and evaluation of historical sources. Procedures, tools and materials are discussed while a selection of…

Download the full invitation here Presentation: Dr. Hannah Saunders Murphy, King’s College London Comments: Dr. José Ramón Marcaida, University of St Andrews Chair: Dr. Marieke Hendriksen, Utrecht University Registration: Not required _______________________________________________________________  ‘Neudörffer’s Notebook: Recipes and the Rendering of Calligraphic Technique between Manuscript and Print in Sixteenth-Century Germany’ The creation of a printed genre of calligraphy…

In his seminal Techniques of the Observer (1990), Jonathan Crary argues that a history of vision or perception “depends on far more than an account of shifts in representational practices … Vision and its effects are always inseparable from the possibilities of an observing subject who is both the historical product and the site of…

On February 22th, ARTECHNE team member Tonny Beentjes (programme leader Metal conservation at the University of Amsterdam, specialised in the conservation of historic metal objects), will defend his thesis titled  “Casting Rodin’s Thinker: Sand mould casting, the case of the Laren Thinker and conservation treatment innovation”. All interested are welcome. Download the invitation here.

Organised with Teylers Museum (download the invitation here) Registration not required Admission with valid entrance ticket to the museum   (buy online here) Chair: Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen, Department of History and Art History, Utrecht University 14.00   Doors open 14.30   ‘Franz and Ferdinand Bauer. From Nature to Botanical Art’  –  Terry van Druten 15.00   ‘Franz and Ferdinand Bauer. Books as…