Conference: Hating the world, despising the arts?

Christian ambivalance towards art and architecture in early modern Europe

International workshop of the research project "SOLITUDES: Withdrawal & Engagement in the Long Seventeeth Century" (ERC), hosted by the Department of Church History, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen.

Programme: Art History Workshop SOLITUDES, Copenhagen 22 June 2016
The Law Faculty, Bispetorvet 1-3, Bisp 214B

15:00-15:15 coffee

15:15-15:20 word of welcome

15:20-16:00 Sven Rune Havsteen and Eelco Nagelsmit (Copenhagen): “The Temple and the Labyrinth: Emblematic Roadmaps of Withdrawal and Engagement”

16:00-16:40 Maarten Delbeke (Ghent) and Ralph Dekoninck (Louvain): “Between Humility and Opulence. Miracle-working Statues of the Virgin in the 17th Century Southern Netherlands”

16:40-17:00 coffee break

17:00-17:40 Hendrik Ziegler (Reims): “Louis XIV idolatrous: The Huguenots’ fight through the arts”

17:40-18:20 Walter Melion (Atlanta): “Eyes Enlivened and Heart Softened: The Visual Rhetoric of Gebedenboek Ruusbroecgenootschap HS 452”

18:30 drinks