The Cleveland Museum of Art
November 3 and 4, 2022
In conjunction with the exhibition and catalogue Tales of the City: Drawings in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel (October 9, 2022, through January 8, 2023), a collaboration with the Albertina Museum, Vienna
Thursday, November 3, 2022
Keynote, 6:00 p.m.
- Stijn Alsteens, International Head, Department of Old Master Drawings, Christie’s
Friday, November 4, 2022
Welcome and Introduction, 10:00 a.m.
- Heather Lemonedes Brown, Virginia N. and Randall J. Barbato Deputy Director and Chief Curator Emily J. Peters, Curator of Prints and Drawings, the Cleveland Museum of Art
Session 1: Color and Practice, 10:45 a.m.–12:05 p.m.
Chaired by Laura Ritter, Albertina Museum
- Sixteenth-Century Netherlandish Drawings on Colored Grounds, Olenka Horbatsch, British Museum
- New Terrains: Landscape Drawings on Colored Grounds in the Low Countries, Stephanie Porras, Tulane University
- Hendrick Goltzius and the Material of Blue Paper in Haarlem, Alexa McCarthy, University of St. Andrews
- Abraham Bloemaert and Karel van Mander: Drawing and Painting in Pink, Austėja Mackelaitė, Morgan Library & Museum
Session 2: Practice and Audience, 1:15–2:25 p.m.
Chaired by Annemarie Stefes, Independent Scholar, Bremen
- Stained Glass in the City: Drawing for a Booming Market in the Netherlands, Ellen Konowitz, State University of New York, New Paltz
- “Dropping a line:” Contemporary Inscriptions on Netherlandish Drawings, Saskia van Altena, Rijksmuseum
- Drafting Netherlandish Sculpture: The Spencer Album in the New York Public Library, Ethan Matt Kavaler, University of Toronto
- Jacques de Gheyn II Drawing Inventions nae ‘t leven en uyt den gheest, Susanne Bartels, University of Geneva, University of Amsterdam, and Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD)
Session 3: Audience and Place, 3:00–4:20 p.m.
Chaired by Emily Peters, the Cleveland Museum of Art
- Amateur Drawing, Music Book Production, and Sociality in Sixteenth-Century Urban Bruges, Huw Keene, University of Edinburgh
- Designs for a Pious City: Lambert Lombard and Catholic Monuments for Liège, Elizabeth Rice Mattison, Hood Museum of Art
- Reimagining the Post-Reformation Landscape through Drawing, Virginia Girard, Columbia University
- More than Drawing: Intermediality of Netherlandish Drawings around 1600, Iris Brahms, Free University Berlin
Closing Remarks, 4:30–5:00 p.m.
Victoria Sancho Lobis, Benton Museum of Art, Pomona College
All sessions will be held in the John C. and Sally S. Morley Family Foundation Lecture Hall at the CMA. Registration Attendance is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Please follow this link to register: cma.org/TOTCsymposium.
Lodging information
There are two hotels within easy walking distance to the museum:
- Courtyard by Marriott Cleveland University Circle 2021 Cornell Rd, Cleveland, OH 44106 P: +1 (216) 791-5678 https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/clece-courtyard-cleveland-university-circle/overview/
- Glidden House 1901 Ford Drive, Cleveland, Ohio, 44106 P: +1 (216) 231-8900 https://www.gliddenhouse.com/