Artist Claudy Jongstra took part in the Dutch arts and culture tv-programme VPRO Mondo, in which Nadia Moussaid receives artists, writers, and other culture makers from home and abroad. In the show of October 18th, 2020, Jongstra talked about our Back to Black and Burgundian Black Projects. You can watch the full interview (in Dutch)…

ARTECHNE’s project members Thijs Hagendijk, Sven Dupré and Márcia Vilarigues recently published their article ‘Materials, Furnaces, and Texts: How to Write About Making Glass Colours in the Seventeenth Century‘ in Ambix. The article discusses how Johann Kunckel’s Ars Vitraria Experimentalis (1679) arguably is the most important text on seventeenth-century glassmaking. As an augmented German translation…

The research programme Dynamics of the Durable: A History of Durability in the Visual and Decorative Arts (DURARE) at University Utrecht is currently looking for a Postdoc to join their team. DURARE is funded by the European Research Council, by way of a Starting Grant awarded to principal investigator Dr Marjolijn Bol. You will be…

Sixteenth-century Venice was a major European centre of woodcut and chalcographic production, as regards reproductions and original prints. An army of local and foreign artists, draughtsmen, engravers and printers worked in the many printing presses in the city, creating Titian, The Triumph of Christ, detail an unrivalled production in Italy in terms of both quantity…

De HAWK Hochschule Hildesheim / Holzminden / Göttingen zoekt naar een hoogleraar voor de cursussen Conservation and Restoration (B.Sc.) / Conservation and Restoration Science (M.Sc.) Gezocht wordt naar een professor op het gebied van kunstgeschiedenis, -theorie en restauratie.  De school zoekt een gekwalificeerd persoon met een universitaire opleiding in kunstgeschiedenis, een bovengemiddeld doctoraat of een…