On the occasion of the retirement of Prof. dr. Maximiliaan Martens, the Department of Theater, Music and Art Sciences of Ghent University cordially invites colleagues and friends to discuss art historical research inspired by the many fields to which Maximiliaan Martens contributed.
Register via https://event.ugent.be/registration/ABurgundianLifeOfArsAndScientia before 14-10-2026.
Program
9:00 : Registration and coffee
09:45 : Welcome (Frederica Van Dam)
10:00 : Painters and Urban Politics in the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries (Jan Dumolyn)
10:30 : Mirror and Blind Spot: The Arnolfini Portrait in the Eyes of Johan Huizinga (Bernhard Ridderbos)
11:00 : Coffee break
11:30 : Photography and The Ghent Altarpiece (Hélène Dubois)
12:00 : From Van Eyck to Bruegel (Manfred Sellink)
12:30 : Jan van Eyck and Paris (Till-Holger Borchert)
13:00 : Lunch
14:00 : The Ghent Altarpiece: Composition in Perspective (Patrick Seurinck)
14:30 : Two Remarks on Jan van Eyck’s Washington Annunciation (Stephan Kemperdick)
15:00 : Coffee break
15:30 : Laudatio (Maryan Ainsworth)
16:15 : Farewell (Gita Deneckere)
16:30 : Reception
17:30: End