[CANCELLED]
Monday 27/04/2020: After-hours at MSK
(Ghent, Fernand Scribedreef 1)
19:00 – 19:30: Welcome speeches
- Rik Van de Walle, Rector of Ghent University
- Cathérine Verleysen, Ghent Museum of Fine Arts
- Maximiliaan Martens, Organising committee, Ghent University
19:30 – 21:30 : Private visits of the exhibition (with time slots)
Continuous reception
Tuesday 28/04/2020: Conference ‘Van Eyck. An Optical Revolution’ at UGent Aula
(Ghent, Voldersstraat 9)
Conference chair: Marc Boone (Ghent University, Professor of Medieval History and former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy)
8:30 : Registration with coffee at the Peristilium
9:00 : Opening of conference by Jan Dumolyn (Organising committee, Ghent University) & Till-Holger Borchert (Director Musea Brugge)
9:15 : Lorne Campbell – ‘The Arnolfini Portrait. The fifteenth-century versions and the development of the composition’
Q&A
10:15 : Eberhard König – ‘Van Eyck interiors and the Turin-Milan Hours‘
Q&A
11:15 : Coffee break at the Peristilium
11:45 : Hélène Dubois – ‘The Mystic Lamb restored’
Q&A
12:45 : Lunch break at the Peristilium
14:00 : Susan Frances Jones – ‘Copies in Jan van Eyck’s Workshop’
Q&A
15:00 : Maryan Ainsworth – ‘Unravelling the Mysteries of Jan van Eyck’s Crucifixion and Last Judgment’
Q&A
16:00 : Coffee break at the Peristilium
16:30 : Wim Blockmans – ‘Incentives to a Genius’
Q&A
17:30 : Closing remarks
