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Summer school Burgundian Blacks by ROOHTS, 1 – 5 July 2019 in Antwerp
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…
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TECHNICAL ART HISTORY COLLOQUIUM: Calligraphy – 28 February, Utrecht
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…
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Keynote by Sven Dupré: ‘Visual Technologies on the Move’, 1 February, Sala Francisco de la Maza, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Mexico
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…
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Thesis defence Tonny Beentjes: ‘Casting Rodin’s Thinker: Sand Mould Casting, the Case of the Laren Thinker and Conservation Treatment Innovation’
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…
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TECHNICAL ART HISTORY COLLOQUIUM: Special edition connected to the Teylers Museum’s botanical art exhibition
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…
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