A workshop organized in conjunction with the exhibition The Charterhouse of Bruges: Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, and Jan Vos at the Frick Collection (https://www.frick.org/exhibitions/charterhouse_bruges)
October 19, 2018
9:00 am to 3:30 pm
Morningside Campus (116th Street), Columbia University
513 Fayerweather Hall
9:15 am, Introduction, David Freedberg, Pierre Matisse Professor of the History of Art, Columbia University and Director of The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America
9:30 am – 11:45 noon
The Exhibition and the Artists Paintings, Prayers, and Salvation: The Jan Vos Virgins in Context
Emma Capron, Curator of Exhibition
The Charterhouse of Bruges Jan van Eyck and Petrus Christus: Equivalent Aims, Divergent Approaches
Maryan Ainsworth, Curator of Northern Renaissance Painting, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Vos, Adornes and the Workshop of Jan van Eyck
Susan Jones, Van Eyck Research in Open Access Project (VERONA)
Session moderated by Pamela Smith, Seth Low Professor of History, Columbia University, and Director of the Making and Knowing Project
12:00 – 1:00 pm: Buffet lunch in 411 Fayerweather Hall
1:00 – 3:15 pm
The Religious and Institutional Context Clerical Patronage at the Time of Van Eyck: Form and Function
Till-Holger Borchert, Director of the Musea Brugge Lay
Clerical Elites in Fifteenth-Century Bruges
Jan Dumolyn, Professor of History, University of Ghent
Jan Vos and Carthusian devotional practices involving images in Bruges and Utrecht
Ingrid Falque, FNRS, Belgium, and the University of Louvain
Session moderated by Martha Howell, Miriam Champion Professor of History, Columbia University
3:15 pm Closing Remarks: Walter Prevenier, Professor Emeritus, University of Ghent
The workshop is sponsored by the Studies of the Dutch-Speaking World, the European Institute, the Department of History, and the Making and Knowing Project, Columbia University, with the support of the General Delegation of the Government of Flanders to the USA, and in cooperation with the Frick Collection.
Advanced registration is required because of space limitations.
Reserve through Eventbrite at: http://bit.ly/vanEyck-RSVP
For further information contact: François Carrel-Billiard, Associate Director, European Institute (francois.carrel@columbia.edu), Martha Howell, Miriam Champion Professor of History (mch4@columbia.edu) Pamela Smith, Seth Low Professor of History (ps2270@columbia.edu), Director, Making and Knowing Project