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Vortrag von Dr. Bram de Klerck, Radboud University Nijmegen

24.05.2012 | 14:00

Vortragseinladung

 
Dr. Bram de Klerck,
Radboud University Nijmegen

Frans Floris and the Iconography of the Madonna of St Luke

 

Donnerstag, 24. Mai 2012, 14.00 Uhr

Kunsthistorisches Institut, Raum A 121

 

In 1557, the Flemish artist Frans Floris signed a painting of St Luke painting the Virgin. The panel, originally made for the so-called ‘painter’s chamber’ of the Guild of St Luke in Antwerp, is now being kept in the Museum of Fine Arts in that city. It shows the Evangelist who, according to legend, was also a painter and had made a portrait of Mary. Strikingly different from the iconographical tradition of this kind of images, is the fact that in Floris’s work, the Madonna is lacking. I will discuss this peculiarty in light of the original context and function of the painting, and the fact that the artist depicted is generally believed to be a portrait of the little known sixteenth-century Dutch painter Rijckaert Aertsz.

The lecture will be combined with information on the master’s specialization in Netherlandish Art and Architecture in an International Perspective which starts in September 2012 at Radboud University. This comprehensive, one-year Master’s specialisation explores the history of the visual arts and architecture of the Netherlands from the Late Middle Ages to the present. Taught in English, it gives students from different countries the opportunity to specialise in one of the most fascinating fields in art history (see: www.ru.nl/masters/naa).