Information from the call for papers, 23 June 2015
In 2010, Illuminare – Centre for the Study of Medieval Art (KU Leuven) acquired the archive of the eminent Belgian art historian professor Jan Karel Steppe (1918-2009). Steppe is internationally renowned for his groundbreaking research on the influx of Netherlandish art and luxury goods in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Spain. By springtime 2016, his documentation will be archived and the inventory made accessible online. To celebrate this accomplishment, Illuminare is organizing an international conference on Steppe’s long-term and much loved research topic.
This conference will focus on a large variety of media, ranging from painting and tapestry to broadcloth and astrolabes. Special attention will be paid to the driving forces behind this export-driven market, such as artists, patrons, collectors and merchants. By taking into account cultural, religious, political and socio-economic dynamics, this conference aims to shed new light on the multifaceted artistic impact of the Low Countries on the Iberian Peninsula in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Scientific committee
Barbara Baert (KU Leuven), Krista de Jonge (KU Leuven), Bart Fransen (KIK-IRPA, Brussels), Robrecht Janssen (KU Leuven / KIK-IRPA, Brussels), Maximiliaan Martens (Ghent University), Werner Thomas (KU Leuven), Paul Vandenbroeck (Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp / KU Leuven), Jan Van der Stock (KU Leuven), Daan van Heesch (KU Leuven), Koenraad Van Cleempoel (Hasselt University), Annelies Vogels (KU Leuven), Lieve Watteeuw (KU Leuven)
For more information, see netherlandishartinspain.wordpress.com
Program
4 February 2016, Thursday
13:00-14:00 Registration
14:00-14:10 Welcome by Jan Van der Stock (Illuminare – Centre for the Study of Medieval Art | University of Leuven)
14:10-14:50 Keynote lecture: Paul Vandenbroeck (Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp / University of Leuven)
‘Le chanoine rouge’. Tribute to a versatile and inspired scholar
14:50-15:10 Robrecht Janssen (Illuminare – Centre for the Study of Medieval Art | University of Leuven)
Genius loci. The Jan Karel Steppe archives at the University of Leuven
15:10-15:25 Questions and discussion
15:25-16:15 Coffee break
Session 1
16:15-16:35 Kate Dimitrova (Alfred University, NY)
The Zaragoza Passion Tapestries. Weaving connections between France, Flanders and the Kingdom of Aragón
16:35-16:55 Iban Redondo-Pares (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
The transport of art works and the role of the merchants in the art markets between Flanders and Castile during the reign of Isabel the Catholic (1474-1504)
16:55-17:15 Iain Buchanan (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
The Duke of Alba’s tapestry acquisitions in the Low Countries (ca. 1555-73)
17:15-17:30 Questions and discussion
17:30-19:00 Reception
5 February 2016, Friday
9:00-9:40 Keynote lecture: Raymond Fagel (Leiden University)
‘As yche othere brothere’. The human factor within the Hispano-Flemish world
9:40-9:55 Questions and discussion
Session 1
9:55-10:15 Kim Woods (Open University, London)
Expatriate carvers and the genesis of the kneeling effigy in late Gothic Spain
10:15-10:35 Nicola Jennings (Courtauld Institute of Art, London)
Made in Iberia. A new look at the retable of Contador Saldaña in Santa Clara de Tordesillas
10:35-10:55 Didier Martens (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Un triptyque flamand singulier dans les collections d’Isabella la Catholique
10:55-11:10 Questions and discussion
11:10-11:50 Coffee break
Session 2
11:50-12:10 Stephanie Porras (Tulane University, LA)
Trading with the enemy: the Spanish market for Antwerp prints and paintings during the Revolt
12:10-12:30 Dirk Imhof (Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp)
The Plantin book trade and the supply of art objects to the Spanish elite
12:30-12:45 Questions and discussion
12:45-14:15 Lunch break
Session 3
14:15-14:35 Krista De Jonge (University of Leuven)
Flemish, Spanish, or somewhere in between? On a Netherlandish anonymous draughtsman of the 1530s and his inventions
14:35-14:55 Ethan Matt Kavaler (University of Toronto)
Jean Mone, Barcelona, and the origins of the ‘Netherlandish’ antique manner
14:55-15:10 Questions and discussion
15:10-15:50 Coffee break
Session 4
15:50-16:10 Paul Vandenbroeck (Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp / University of Leuven)
Roque de Bolduque, a multifaceted Flemish sculptor in Andalucía (c. 1530-1560)
16:10-16:30 Adam Harris Levine (Columbia University, NY)
The flemish face: Brabantine bust reliquaries in their Renaissance Spanish contexts
16:30-16:45 Questions and discussion
19:00 Conference dinner
6 February 2016, Saturday
9:00-9:40 Keynote lecture: Noelia García Pérez (Universidad de Murcia)
Gender, representation and power: female patronage of Netherlandish art in Renaissance Spain
9:40-9:55 Questions and discussion
Session 1
9:55-10:15 Marieke van Wamel (Radboud University Nijmegen)
De Gerónimo Bosco de su propia mano. The Spanish patrons and collectors of Jheronimus Bosch
10:15-10:35 Elena Vázquez Dueñas (Fundación Carlos de Amberes, Madrid)
The Guevara’s as collectors of Netherlandish art at the Spanish Court
10:35-10:50 Questions and discussion
10:50-11:30 Coffee break
Session 2
11:30-11:50 Eduardo Lamas-Delgado (KIK-IRPA / Université Libre de Bruxelles) & Antonio Romero Dorado (Universidad de Sevilla)
The dukes of Medina Sidonia and Netherlandish art: on the artistic patronage in a secondary Renaissance Iberian court
11:50-12:10 Koenraad Van Cleempoel (University of Hasselt)
Flemish scientific instruments from the ‘Louvain School’ and the relationship with the court of Charles V and Philips II
12:10-12:25 Questions and discussion
12:25-13:30 Lunch break
Session 3
13:30-13:50 Francisco Galante (Universidad de La Laguna)
Flanders in the Canary Islands. Art and patronage in the “Golden Age”
13:50-14:10 Maite Barrio Olano (Albayalde), Ion Berasain Salvarredi (Albayalde) & Jesús Muñiz Petralanda (Diocesan Museum of Religious Art, Bilbao)
Retables sculptés flamands en Espagne: Quelques réflexions sur les promoteurs et la relation entre les traditions artistiques flamandes et hispaniques
14:10-14:25 Questions and discussion
Session 4
14:25-14:45 Jessica Weiss (Metropolitan State University of Denver, CO)
Beauty and belief: Isabel of Castile’s copy of the Miraflores Altarpiece
14:45-15:05 Antonia Putzger (Technische Universität Berlin)
Early Netherlandish painting at the court of Philip II: shape, substance and acquired meaning
15:05-15:25 Lisa Wiersma (University of Amsterdam / Webster University Leiden)
On celestial spheres and earthly delights. The Planet Series and Bacchus by Jacques Jonghelinck in Spain
15:25-15:40 Questions and discussion
15:40-15:55 Closing remarks by Jan Van der Stock (Illuminare – Centre for the Study of Medieval Art | University of Leuven)