Programme

Thursday 1 December 2011

 

09.30
Registration

10.15
Welcome and introduction – Véronique Van de Kerckhof (curator of the Rubenianum) and Prof.dr. Piet Lombaerde (AUHA, Faculty of Design Sciences and University of Antwerp, Department of History)

10.30
Key note lecture – “Scientific/architectural" and/versus "universal": the notion of disegno in a changing context of art and architecture – Prof.dr. Werner Oechslin (ETH Zürich)
 

 

Italy: Theory and Practice – Chair: Prof.dr. Piet Lombaerde

11.00
Sebastiano Serlio and the Italian tradition of architecture in painting – Prof.dr. Sabine Frommel (EPHE Paris Sorbonne)

11.30
Painter architects in Rome: Michelangelo, Raphael, Peruzzi – Prof.dr. Howard Burns (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) 

 
12.00
Vignola, a serious training: painting, perspective, architecture – Prof.dr. Bruno Adorni (Università di Parma)

Lunch

The Painter-Architect during the 16th century in the Southern Netherlands – Chair: Prof.dr. Konrad Ottenheym (University of Utrecht) 
 

14.00
The painter-architect in the Low Countries 1480-1530: the first generation? – Drs. Oliver Kik (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

14.30
Pieter Coecke van Aelst, painter-architect – Prof.dr. Krista De Jonge (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

15.00
Les emblèmes du véritable artiste: the house of Frans Floris de Vriendt in context –  Dr. Edward H. Wouk (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
 

Coffee

16.00
Design in motion: the Netherlandish painter-architect as traveller, pilgrim, and exile – Prof.dr. Christopher Heuer (Princeton University)

16.30
Wensel Cobergher: paintings of a court architect – Dr. Tine Meganck (Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels)

17.30
Evening visit to House Delbeke and Rockox House & Drink

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Friday 2 December 2011 

 

09.15
Registration

Vasari & Rubens – Chair: Prof.dr. Piet Lombaerde

9.30

Giorgio Vasari and the architecture of the arts – Prof.dr. Gerd Blum (Kunstakademie Münster, Hochschule für Bildende Künste)

10.00

Vasari, Rubens and the question of style in architecture – Dr. Barbara Uppenkamp (University of Hamburg)

Coffee

The Palaces of Genova – Chair: Prof.dr. Piet Lombaerde

11.00
Rubens and Genova: paintings and painted architecture – Prof.dr. Stefano F. Musso (Università di Genova)

11.30

That rare book in a large folio’. Remarks about the production, early reception and significance of Rubens’s Palazzi di Genova – Stijn Alsteens (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

12.00
Frans Geffels, Rubens and the Palazzi di Genova – Drs. Giulio Girondi (Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture and Planning)

 

Free lunch

Rubens 's Architectural Ideas – Chair: Prof.dr. Krista De Jonge

14.30
Rubens’s Antwerp palazzetto: concept and meaning – Ben Van Beneden (Curator of The Rubens House)

15.00
Rubens’s House: light and architectural space – Prof.dr. Piet Lombaerde
 
Coffee

16.00
Closing lecture – Rubens and his theoretical notebook – Prof.dr. Arnout Balis (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Centrum Rubenianum)

17.00
Evening visit to the Exhibition Palazzo Rubens. The Master as Architect in The Rubens House

Closing Reception

 

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Saturday 3 December 2011

10.00 – 13.00:
Guided City Tour: 17th Century Architecture in Antwerp