NETHERLANDISH CULTURE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
An Interdisciplinary Conference hosted by the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto
Program
THURSDAY OCTOBER 18, 2012
6:00 – 8:00 (pm) Reception: Park Hyatt Hotel (and early registration)
FRIDAY OCTOBER 19, 2012
8:30 – 9:00 Registration / Coffee and Pastries
9:00 – 9:30 Welcome
9:30 – 10:40 Keynote: Herman Roodenburg Vrije Universiteit, Meertens Instituut, Amsterdam Continuities or discontinuities? Exploring affective piety in the sixteenth- century Low Countries
10:40 – 11:00 Coffee
11:00 – 12:40 SESSIONS I
1a. [Art and Religion] Jeffrey Chipps Smith, Chair
Alfred Acres Georgetown University Gossart’s Religion
Ethan Matt Kavaler University of Toronto Mapping Time: The Netherlandish Carved Altarpiece in the Sixteenth Century
Walter Melion Emory University Meditative Exegesis and the Trope of Conversion in Dirk Vellert’s Calling of Peter and Andrew of 1523
1.b. [Printers and printmakers] Art Di Furia, Chair
Renaud Adam Royal Library of Belgium, Rare Books Department Antwerp Printers at the beginning of the Sixteenth Century: a Social Enquiry
Konrad Eisenbichler University of Toronto Publicity and Propaganda: Nicolaus Hogenberg’s Engravings of the Post-Coronation Cavalcade of Emperor Charles V in Bologna (1530)
Olenka Horbatsch University of Toronto Nicolas Hogenberg’s Death of Margaret of Austria (1531): Paper monuments within courtly context
12:40 – 1:40 LUNCH
1:40 – 3:20 SESSIONS II
2a. [Changing worlds, global perspectives] Krista De Jonge, Chair
Peter Stabel & Kim Overlaet University of Antwerp, Centre for Urban History Western perceptions of urbanity in the Christian and Muslim world (15th-16th centuries)
Marisa Bass Washington University Jan Mostaert’s History Painting
Annick Born Ghent interdisciplinary Center for Art & Science, Ghent University. The Customs and Fashions of the Turks ‘ au vif contrefaictez’ by Pieter Coecke van Aelst : critical reading and visual evidence
2b. [Knowledge and technology] Konrad Eisenbichler, Chair
Bart Ramakers University of Groningen Embodying knowledge. Personification in rhetorician drama
Maximiliaan P.J. Martens & Jochen Ketels Ghent University Quinten Massys as Architectural Designer
Arjan van Dixhoorn Ghent University Literature, Knowledge and Self in the Early Modern City. The Civic Community as Research Community, 1450-1650
3:20 – 3:40 Coffee
3:40 – 5:20 SESSIONS III
3a. [Art in the age of Dürer] Walter Melion, Chair
Jeffrey Chipps Smith University of Texas at Austin An Outsider’s View: Dürer’s Thoughts on Netherlandish Art, Artists, and Culture
Ellen Konowitz State University of New York at New Paltz Dirk Vellert and early engraving in Antwerp: New Subjects for a New Medium
Jessica Stewart University of California at Berkeley Parrots for portraits. Albrecht Dürer and the material culture of 16th-c. Antwerp
3b. [Festival] Anne-Laure Van Bruaene, Chair
Elisabeth Neumann University of Toronto Inventing Europe in Antwerp’s 1520 Entry for Charles V: an Erasmian Allegory in the face of Global Empire
Jac Geurts Radboud University Nijmegen 'Urban' Identity in 'Courtly' Ceremonies. Public rituals in a rebellious duchy of Gueldres in the Habsburg Netherlands
Stijn Bussels University of Groningen The role of tableaux vivants in the sixteenth-century entry ritual
6:00 – 7:30 Reception: Art Gallery of Ontario
SATURDAY OCTOBER 20, 2012
8:30 – 9:00 Coffee and Pastries
9:00 – 10:10 Keynote: Peter Arnade University of Hawaii City, Republic, Empire: Political Imaginaries and Realities in the Long Sixteenth Century
10:10 – 10:30 Coffee
10:30 – 12:10 SESSIONS IV
4a. [The cultural impact of the Dutch Revolt] Jane Couchman, Chair
Koenraad Jonckheere Ghent University Patterns of expectation: Another note on the historical explanation of pictures after the Image Debates
Anne-Laure Van Bruaene Ghent University Animals in Revolt. Animal satire, anthropomorphism and political fear in the sixteenth- century Low Countries
Konrad Ottenheym Utrecht University Sixteenth-century protestant church architecture by Netherlandish architects outside the Low Countries
4b. [The City and its Agents] Violet Soen, Chair
Samuel Mareel Ghent University Fictions of self and city. Eduard de Dene and the city of Bruges in the Testament Rhetoricael (1562)
Krista De Jonge University of Leuven Tales of the City: The Image of the Netherlandish Artist in the Sixteenth-Century
Jeroen Vandommele University of Groningen Arranging ‘facts’ in ‘fiction’. Knowledge and memory in Antwerp print and play (1550-1565)
12:10 – 1:10 LUNCH
1:10 – 2:50 SESSIONS V
5a. [Painting at Mid-Century] Koenraad Jonckheere, Chair
Lloyd DeWitt Art Gallery of Ontario Pieter Claeissen the Elder’s Moses trampling Pharaoh’s Crown: artistic identity and context
Giancarlo Fiorenza California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Frans Floris’s Mythological Vocabulary
Tianna Uchacz University of Toronto Painting as Discourse: Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan
5b. [The European context of the Dutch Revolt] Bart Ramakers, Chair
Violet Soen University of Leuven The Council of Trent and the Preconditions for the Dutch Revolt
Jane Couchman York University Louise de Coligny, Princess of Orange, and the French connection.
Hans Cools & Nina Lamal University of Leuven An Italian voice on the Dutch Revolt. The work of Francesco Lanario in a European perspective
2:50 – 3:10 Coffee
3:10 – 5:00 SESSIONS VI
6a. [Images and artifacts] Ellen Konowitz, Chair
Bret Rothstein Indiana University The Joy of Looking, or Playing with Objects in Early Sixteenth-Century Antwerp
Caecilie Weissert University of Vienna Stage images
Dick E. H. de Boer University of Groningen. Lottery-rhymes as a mirror of cultural legacy of the ‘long 16th century’
6b. [Material and visual culture] Tianna Uchacz, Chair
Inneke Baatsen and Bruno Blondé University of Antwerp, Centre for Urban History The ‘civilized’ citizen? Table manners between mentality and materiality
Angela Glover University of Toronto What Constitutes Sculpture? The Guild Dispute of 1544 over the St. Gertrude Choirstalls in Leuven
Jelle De Rock Ghent University / University of Antwerp; Centre for Urban History From portrait to pictorial map: the genesis of autonomous city views in the 16th-century Southern Netherlands
6:00 Banquet, Victoria University in the University of Toronto