Marieke Hendriksen will participate in and present her work on the ARTECHNE database at the summer institute Digital Collections. New Methods and Technologies for Art History in Zürich from 4 to 14 September 2016. The institute is generously funded by the Getty Foundation as part of its Digital Art History initiative. The Summer Institute on Digital…

Marieke Hendriksen has been awarded a Wellcome Trust small grant to do research for her case study ‘Preserving and Modelling the Body: Technique in Anatomical Practice and Visual Arts at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 1700-1850’ at the Archives and Library of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in the fall of…

Professor Sven Dupré will be hosting two CORES seminars the 28th of June at the Department of Conservation and Restoration at the Universidade NOVA in Lisbon. He will discuss the ideas that won an European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant for the project ARTECHNE: ‘Technique in the Arts: Concepts, Practices, Expertise, 1500-1950’. Sessions  Technique in…

Speaker: Sven Dupré (Professor History of Art, Science and Technology, Utrecht University and Amsterdam University) Date: Monday June 6, 2016 Time: 15:00–17:00 hrs, including the evaluation of these colloquia in the past Academic year and with drinks afterwards Location: Utrecht, Sweelinckzaal (0.05) Drift 21 Convenors: Wijnand Mijnhardt and Oscar Gelderblom Sven Dupré – The ARTECHNE…

Marieke Hendriksen will present at the Death, Art and Anatomy Conference, an interdisciplinary conference exploring the intersections between death, art and anatomy, by bringing together art historians, medical historians, and practising artists. The conference will be held at the University of Winchester (UK) from 3-6 June 2016. ‘Casting life, casting death: the relation between early…