The Contribution of Artistic Genres to the Construction of the Dutch Golden Age
second project conference
Un siècle d'Or? Repenser la peinture hollandaise du XVIIe siècle - Université de Genève
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organizers:
Susanne Bartels, Jan Blanc, Léonie Marquaille, Marije Osnabrugge, Léonard Pouy
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Haarlem, Frans Halsmuseum, 6 & 7 June 2019
Register before May 30th:
https://forms.gle/AxUiY3qVgGDQX8pL6
(limited seats, participation and lunch free after registration, but museum ticket must be purchased)
Conference Programme
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Day 1 : JUNE 6, 2019
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09:00 registration and coffee
09:15 welcome
Session I : Introduction to Artistic Genres (chair: Elmer Kolfin)
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09:30 Jan BLANC (University of Geneva) : On artistic genres in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic: definitions, taxinomies, hierarchies
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09:50 Weixuan LI (University of Amsterdam / Huygens-ING Institute, The Hague) : Comprehending the concepts of genre and specialization in the eyes of seventeenth-century connoisseurs: a digital approach
10:10 Tijana ZAKULA (University of Utrecht) : From genre scenes à l’antique to genre sérieux: the contribution of Gerard de Lairesse
10:30 discussion
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11:00 coffee break
Session II : Artistic Genres and the Artist (chair : Léonard Pouy)
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11:30 Susanne BARTELS (University of Geneva / RKD, The Hague) : Guns and roses: versatility and fluidity in the oeuvre of Jacques de Gheyn
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11:50 Edwin BUIJSEN (Mauritshuis / RKD, The Hague) : From all-rounder to 'niche genre' painter: the artistic development of Adriaen van de Venne
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12:10 discussion
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12:40 Introduction to the permanent collection of the Frans Halsmuseum by Marrigje Rikken (Head of Collections Frans Halsmuseum)
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12.50 lunch
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Session III : Artistic Genres and Society I (chair : Angela Jager)
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14:30 Norbert MIDDELKOOP (Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam) : The corporate group portrait and the notion of genre
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14:50 Léonard POUY (Sorbonne University, Paris / University of Geneva) : The Guardroom Scene as Self-Representation
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15:10 Tabea SCHINDLER (University of Bern) : The Development of Oriental Tronies by the Rembrandt Circle and its Role in the Construction of the Dutch Golden Age
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15:30 discussion
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16:00 museum visit
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Day 2 : June 7, 2019
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Session IV : Artistic Genres and Society II (chair : Marije Osnabrugge)
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9:15 V.E. MANDRIJ (University of Konstanz) : Otto Marseus van Schrieck and the sottobosco paintings: a hybrid genre depicting another Dutch Golden Age
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9:35 Jessie Wei-Hsuan CHEN (University of Utrecht) : Picturing Flowers as a Genre: Constructing the Culture of Collecting Nature in the Dutch Golden Age
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9:55 discussion
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10:30 coffee break
Session V : Artistic Genres : The Bambocciata (chair : Susanne Bartels)
11:00 Suzanne BAVEREZ (ENS ULM/EPHE, Paris) : The Bambocciata: investigating a "would-be genre"
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11:20 Jennifer RABE (University of Bern) : “Soggetti vili, popolari”: Bambocciata as a Fatal Genre
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11:40 discussion
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12:10 lunch
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Session VI : Hybridity (chair : Marije Osnabrugge)
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13:50 Helen HILLYARD (Dulwich Picture Gallery) : The Hybrid Genre: Pieter Saenredam's 'Perspectives'
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14:10 Carole FONTICELLI (Sorbonne University, Paris) : Woman, saint, example and allegory: the different faces of Mary Magdalene in seventeenth-century Dutch painting
14:30 discussion
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15:00 coffee break
Session VII : Affects and Effects (chair : Jan Blanc)
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15:20 Lizzie MARX (University of Cambridge / Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam) : Smelling the Dutch Golden Age Through Artistic Genres
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15:40 Stephanie DICKEY (Queen’s University, Kingston) : The Iconography of Pain in the Work of Rembrandt and his Contemporaries: A Case Study in the Fluidity of Genre Categories
16:00 discussion
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16:30 general discussion
17:00 End of the conference / Drinks