29/03/2024
📢Lecture: “Making and Valuing Reproducible Metalwork in the Early Modern Low Countries”📢
Reproducible metalwork like medals, plaquettes, roundels, and statuettes circulated widely from the late fifteenth century onward. While produced in multiples, these small-scale objects—cast in lead, bronze, copper, or even silver and gold—were valuable personal objects of daily life. In comparison to the unique carvings of sculptors such as Conrat Meit or Lucas Faydherbe, these small, replicable images have been overlooked in recent studies of Netherlandish sculpture.
During this lecture Elizabeth Rice Mattison, the Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programming and Curator of European Art at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, will explore their roles and meanings in the early modern Low Countries.
This Food for Thought lecture is a collaboration between Illuminare and , the centre for medieval sculpture at .leuven.
ℹ️06.06.24 | 20:00 – 21:30
ℹ️Location: M Leuven
ℹ️Language: English
ℹ️Price: Free
ℹ️Tickets: Registration mandatory
For more information, please visit:
👉https://www.mleuven.be/en/programme/food-for-thought-metalworking
📸Hans Jamnitzer the Younger after Maarten van Heemskerck, ‘The Forge of Vulcan’, c.1573. Bronze with traces of gilding, Roger Arvid Anderson Collection, Hood Museum of Art, 2016.64.55.
©Sara Jamback