“Speculative Imagemaking in Late Medieval and Early Modern Art”, organized in honor of Reindert Falkenburg
Monday, June 29, 2026
9:15 a.m. to 6:15 p.m.
Vasari Room of the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA), 2 rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris.
This event will bring together international specialists in late medieval and early modern art to explore questions of imagination, visual speculation, religious painting, and landscape.
The symposium will conclude, in the presence of Reindert Falkenburg, with the presentation of the collective volume Speculative Imagemaking in Late Medieval and Early Modern Art. Festschrift in Honor of Reindert L. Falkenburg (Brill, 2026).
Program:
09.15 Accueil et introduction (Ingrid Falque, Ralph Dekoninck, Michel Weemans)
09.30 Mariët Westermann (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum & Foundation, New York) A riddle for Reindert
09.45 Stijn Bussels (Leiden Universiteit) et Caroline van Eck (Cambridge University) Heightened Alertness
10.00 Bernard Aikema (Università di Verona) et Dulcia Meijers (Emerson College) A Nightly Vision by Bassano: Discursive Images and the “Dalpontiana Methodus”
10.15 Discussion
10.45 Pause-café
11.15 Christine Göttler (Universität Bern) The Sorceress’s Laboratory: Joseph Werner on the Art of Making Magic
11.30 Mark Meadow (University of California, Santa Barbara) Retro-engineering as Historical Method in
Cornelis van Dalem and Christophorus Mylaeus
11.45 Herman Roodenburg (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Beweeglijkheid: Rhetorical and Devotional
12.00 Discussion
12.30-14.00 Déjeuner
14.00 Bertram Kaschek (Staatsgalerie Stuttgart) A Wild Ride and a Slow Walk. Two of Dürer’s Etchings Reconsidered
14.15 : Bertrand Prévost (Université Bordeaux Montaigne) Paysages intérieurs. Spatialité et subjectivation chrétiennes à l’aube de la modernité
14.30 Walter S. Melion (Emory University) The Spiritual Form and Function of the Paper Prints in Two Collectaria Produced at Sint-Truiden Abbey, ca. 1550
14.45 Discussion
15.15 Pause
15.45 Jost Keizer (Radboud Universiteit) Jan van Goyen’s World Making
16.00 Jürgen Müller (Dresden Universität) The Secret of the Dewdrop. Caravaggio’s Milanese Fruit Basket
16.15 Discussion
16.45 Pause café
17.00-18.00 Roundtable with Ralph Dekoninck, Ingrid Falque, Walter S. Melion, Frits Scholten and Michel Weemans with the participation of Reindert Falkenburg
Presentation of the volume Speculative Imagemaking in Late Medieval and Early Modern Art. Festschrift in Honor of Reindert L. Falkenburg, edited by Ingrid Falque, Walter S. Melion, Frits Scholten and
Michel Weemans (Boston et Leiden, Brill, 2026).