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