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CODARTfocus Jheronimus Bosch: program

Program CODARTfocus Jheronimus Bosch

Exploring Bosch: viewing his works and discussing the results of the Bosch Research and Conservation Project

Sunday 13 March 2016
Chair: Friso Lammertse, Curator of Old Master Paintings, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

15:30-16:00 Registration at De Toonzaal in ’s-Hertogenbosch and welcome by Gerdien Verschoor, Director of CODART and Friso Lammertse

The New Jheronimus Bosch

16:00-16:45 Lecture by Jos Koldeweij, Professor in Art History of the Middle Ages at the Radboud University Nijmegen about Bosch’s biography, his commissioners and collectors

16:45-17:30 Lecture by Prof. dr. Robert G. Erdmann, Senior Scientist Rijksmuseum; Professor of Conservation Science University of Amsterdam; Special Professor of Visualization, Radboud University Nijmegen

17:45-19:00 Drinks at City Hall (Achter het Stadhuis 5-7) offered by the Mayor of the city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Ton Rombouts

Monday 14 March 2016
Chair: Maryan Ainsworth, Curator of European Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

08:00-09:30 Exclusive visit to the exhibition (museum opens to the public at 9:00)

09:30-09:45 Walk from the museum to De Toonzaal

09:45-10-15 Coffee and tea in the foyer of De Toonzaal

10:15-10:30 Welcome and lecture about the concept of the exhibition by Charles de Mooij, Director of the Noordbrabants Museum in ‘s-Hertogenbosch

Connoisseurship and Bosch

10:30-11:15 Lecture by Matthijs Ilsink, Assistant-Professor at the Radboud University Nijmegen, Project Coordinator of the BRCP and co-curator of the exhibition, about connoisseurship and works newly attributed to Bosch

11:15-11:45 Discussion led by the chair

Jheronimus Bosch (ca. 1450 - 1516), Detail of the Ascent into Heaven from the series Visions of the Hereafter, ca. 1505-15 Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice (photo from before restoration)

Jheronimus Bosch (ca. 1450 – 1516), Detail of the Ascent into Heaven from the series Visions of the Hereafter, ca. 1505-15
Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice
(photo from before restoration)

12:00-13:30 Lunch

Bosch restored

13:45-14:20 Lecture by Luuk Hoogstede, Research Conservator, Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg (SRAL), Maastricht, about the conservation part of the BRCP

14:20-14:40 Lecture by Annetje Boersma and Eva van Zuien, Paintings Conservators, about the Saint Christopher (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam)

14:40-15:20 Coffee and tea break in the foyer of De Toonzaal

15:20-15:40 Lecture by Giulio Bono, Paintings Conservator, about the Venetian paintings: the Hermit Saints Triptych, the Triptych of Saint Uncumber and the Four Visions of the Hereafter

15:40-16:00 Lecture by Griet Steyaert, Paintings Conservator, about the Last Judgment (Groeningemuseum, Bruges)

16:00-17:00 Panel discussion and concluding remarks led by Anne van Grevenstein, Emeritus Professor of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, University of Amsterdam

End of program