NETHERLANDISH CULTURE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

An Interdisciplinary Conference hosted by the Centre for and 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 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 ’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