Imagination at Work: Inventive Iconography in the Arts of the Early Modern Netherlands
Thursday March 20
2:30pm-4pm
Boston Marriott Copley Place – Yarmouth Room – 4th Floor
Session Organizer:
Jessica Frances Keating, Carleton College
Session Chairs:
Stephanie S. Dickey, Queen’s University at Kingston
Amy Golahny, Boston College
Papers:
- Guy Tal, Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, “Witchcraft and Pipe-Smoking Devils in a Print by Jan van de Velde II”
- Tijana Zakula, Universiteit Utrecht, “Paltry Fragments and Desolate Swamps: Rise and Fall of Utrecht Grottos”
- Kendra Grimmett, Ball State University, “Slipping Through Her Fingers: The Fleeting Power of Women in Rubens’s ‘Hercules and Omphale’
Imagination at Work: Inventive Iconography in the Arts of the Early Modern Netherlands II
Thursday March 20
4:30pm-6pm
Boston Marriott Copley Place – Yarmouth Room – 4th Floor
Session Organizer:
Jessica Frances Keating, Carleton College
Session Chairs:
Stephanie S. Dickey, Queen’s University at Kingston
Amy Golahny, Boston College
Papers:
- Katherine Gobel Hardy, Columbia University, “Childish Invention in Jan Steen’s The Scholar and Death”
- Susan Maxwell, University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh, “Lessons in Iconography and Technique in Joachim von Sandrart’s Twelve Months”
- Valentin Bec, UQAM, “Pieter de Hooch’s Refuse: From Transgression to Signature”
Michel Sittow: New Research to Commemorate the Fifth Centenary of His Death
Friday, March 21
Boston Marriott Copley Place – Yarmouth Room – 4th Floor
Session Organizers:
Jessica Frances Keating, Carleton College
Jessica Weiss, Metropolitan State University of Denver
Oskar J. Rojewski, University of Silesia in Katowice
Anu Mänd, University of Tartu
Session Chair:
Felipe Pereda, Harvard University
Papers:
- Oskar J. Rojewski, University of Silesia in Katowice, “Michel Sittow’s Income at the Castilian Court”
- Jessica Weiss, Metropolitan State University of Denver, “Michel Sittow, Juan de Flandes, and the Complications of Closely Working Court Artists”
Functions and Meanings of Color in Early Modern European Prints
Saturday, March 22
11am-12:30pm
Boston Marriott Copley Place – Salon K – 4th Floor
Organizers:
Jessica Frances Keating, Carleton College
Manon Chaidron, UCLouvain
Session Chair:
Walter Simon Melion, Emory University
Panel Respondent:
Susan Dackerman, Princeton University
Papers:
- Karolina Anna Mroziewicz, University of Warsaw, “Color in Heraldic Prints in Sixteenth-Century Polish Kingdom: A Comparative Look”
- Marie-Anne Dragon, Free University of Brussels, “Decoding the Palette: The Role of Color in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century European Parrot Engravings”
- Manon Chaidron, UCLouvain, “The Desecration of the Hosts in Colorized Books During the Seventeenth Century”