Venue
Thursday 17 November
Nijmegen City Hall (Stadhuis)
Korte Nieuwstraat 6
6511 PP Nijmegen
Friday 18 November
Best Western Hotel Belvoir
Graadt van Roggenstraat 101
6522 AX Nijmegen
T +31 24 323 2344
Organizers
Museum Het Valkhof
and
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Department of Art History
Medieval Studies
Erasmusplein 1, room 10.02
6525 HT Nijmegen
T +31 24 361 2832
Support
Dutch Postgraduate School for Art History
SNS Reaalfonds
Netherlands Culture Fund
Limbourg Brothers Foundation
Related event
Exhib. The Limbourg brothers: Nijmegen masters at the French court, 1400-1416
Moderators
Jos Koldeweij (Professor of Art History, Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen)
James Marrow (Professor of Art History, Princeton University, New Haven / Fitzwilliam Museum of Art, Cambridge)
Program
Thursday 17 November
10:00 Opening by Dr. Guusje ter Horst, Mayor of Nijmegen
Hanneke van Asperen (Researcher, Department of Art History, Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen)
A pilgrim’s additions: traces of pilgrimage in the Belles Heures
Till-Holger Borchert (Chief Curator Groeningemuseum and Arentshuis, Bruges)
Franco-Flemish artists in the service of the courts: the problem of Masonic traditions around 1400
Gregory T. Clark (Professor of Art History at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee)
The Master of Guillebert de Mets, Philip the Good, and the Breviary of John the Fearless
Herman Colenbrander (Independent art historian, Amsterdam)
Guelders and France, another connection
Rob Dückers (Co-curator of the xxhibition, Assistant Director, Emerson College, Well (NL)
A close encounter? The Limbourg brothers and illumination from the Guelders region
Eberhard König (Professor of Art History at the Freie Universität, Berlin)
What the Belles Heures may tell about the Limburg brothers
Margaret Lawson (Paper conservator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Les Belles Heures: materials and techniques
Stephen Perkinson (Assistant Professor of Art History, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine)
Likeness, loyalty, and the life of the court artist: portraiture in the calendar scenes of the Très Riches Heures
Pieter Roelofs (Curator, Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen)
Facts and fairytales about the Limbourg brothers
Victor M. Schmidt (Department of Art and Architectural History,University of Groningen)
Some notes on Johan Maelwael
Patricia Stirnemann (Researcher with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes, Paris)
How many artists contributed to the Très Riches Heures?
Off site excursions
Friday morning, 18 November
Visit to the exhibition Rijkdom in eenvoud: laatmiddeleeuwse handschriften uit klooster Soeterbeeck (Riches in simplicity: late medieval manuscripts from the Soeterbeeck convent) with Hans Kienhorst (Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen), curator of the exhibition
Visit to the medieval Glashuiskwartier (Glasshouse quarter) with Willem Alferink, chairman of Stichting Oude Stad (Old Town Foundation).
Museum Het Valkhof presents a special evening opening to the participants of the symposium on Thursday 17 November from 7 pm till 10 pm.