RENAISSANCE SCULPTURE OF THE LOW COUNTRIES
FROM THE CENTURY OF JACQUES DU BROEUCQ (C. 1505-84)

International Conference at Mons, Belgium
7-10 March 2008

Organized by Facultés universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur,
Katholieke Universiteit Leuve, Université de Liège, and The Low
Countries Sculpture Society.

The history of Low Countries sculpture of the 16th century has
principally been written in the form of important artists’ monographs.
In court circles and by the middle of the 16th century, these artists
would have taken over from the large sculpture workshops, especially
those producing polychromed and gilded wooden altarpieces. This history
was mostly written in-between the two World Wars, in the margin of the
history of early netherlandish painting and Italian Renaissance
sculpture. These writings created a system of paradigms, rooted in
stylistic analysis that today we have great difficulty in understanding,
let alone accepting. We could call this system the “discourse of
influence”.

The present conference wishes to discuss the pertinence of this state of
knowledge and create links that might lead to a less fragmented overall
view than the one we have today. Our current view is admittedly the
fruit of a lack of archival material, destroyed by the iconoclasts, the
revolutionaries or wars, but also and especially of the traditional
methods of art history, that still condition much of our perception of
the 16th century, particularly as to its sculpture.
The number and quality of the research, applying all the current
methodologies of art history, carried out in several European and
American museums and universities (e.g. think of the work on Jacques Du
Broeucq), is such that it can form a good starting point for an
integrative reflection on sculpture and architectural sculpture in the
Low Countries in the 16th century, their imports and exports.

Programme

(Thursday noon-9 pm: official opening of the TEFAF Fair at Maastricht)
(Friday 11 am- 7 pm : first public day of the TEFAF)

Friday 7 March 2008, 6.30 pm
Inaugural Lecture by Professor Ethan Matt Kavaler, University of
Toronto,
Cet autre art : la sculpture de la Renaissance des anciens Pays-Bas

Saturday 8 March 2008

Welcome by Michel De Reymaeker, city museums of Mons

MODELS, ADAPTATION, ASSIMILATION
Session chaired by Prof Dr Dominique Allart, University of Liège

Dr Jean-Pierre De Rycke, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tournai,
Le pavillon montois de 1531 et les premiers développements de la
Renaissance en Hainaut

Dr Michel Lefftz, Facultés universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur,
Un atelier de sculpture maniériste original et inédit : aspects d'une
Renaissance mosane de la seconde moitié du XVIe siècle

Luis Luna Moreno, Junta de Castilla y León, Valladolid, Sculpteurs
originaires des anciens Pays-Bas actifs en Espagne au XVIe siècle

Dr Alain Jacobs, Royal Library, Brussels/The Low Countries Sculpture
Society, La sculpture baroque anversoise a-t-elle ses sources dans la
Renaissance cambrésienne?

Visit of the sculptures by Jacques Du Broeucq at the collegiate church
of Sainte-Waudru, led by Benoît Van Caenegem, curator of the church

WOOD SCULPTURE BETWEEN TRADITION AND RENEWAL
Session chaired by Prof Dr Yvette Vanden Bemden, Facultés
universitaires
Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur

Myriam Serck-Dewaide, Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, Brussels,
Observations croisées sur les retables anversois tardifs renaissants
polychromés et sur les retables partiellement ornés ou monochromes

Sophie Guillot de Suduiraut, Musée du Louvre and Juliette Lévy,
independent sculpture conservator, Paris, Entre tradition et nouveauté.
Retables de dévotion en bois polychromé dans les anciens Pays-Bas au
XVIe siècle

Professor Ria Fabri, University of Antwerp, Sculpteurs et ébénistes
à la
fin du XVIe siècle : le cas d’Anvers

Dr Brigitte D’Hainaut-Zveny, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Les
retables
d'autel Renaissance. Jalons dans l'histoire d'une évolution des formes
et du statut de l'image religieuse

ARCHITECTURAL SCULPTURE
Session chaired by Prof Dr Krista De Jonge, Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven

Bertrand Bergbauer, Musée National de la Renaissance, Château
d’Ecouen,
Un manteau de cheminée de la maison de Cornelis Floris à Anvers?

Géraldine Patigny, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique,
Bruxelles/FUNDP Namur/ULB, Un type de mobilier liturgique particulier:
la tourelle eucharistique. Les exemples exécutés par Cornelis Floris
et
leur prolongement dans l’œuvre de Jérôme Du Quesnoy le Vieux

Dr Dirk Van de Vijver, Universiteit Utrecht, Aspects architecturaux et
ornementaux de la sculpture anversoise vers 1550. La formation et la
diffusion d’un modèle

Sunday 9 March 2008

DU BROEUCQ AND THE RENAISSANCE IN THE LOW COUNTRIES
Session chaired by Professor Matt Kavaler, University of Toronto

Léon Lock, University of London/The Low Countries Sculpture Society, Du
Broeucq, Mone and Paludanus: the production and display of small-scale
sculpture for the collector

Dr Charles Avery, London, Interpreting the relations between Du Broeucq,
Paludanus and the young Giambologna

Dr Jens Burk, Munich, Some remarks on Conrat Meit and
South-Netherlandish sculpture between 1533 and 1566

MONUMENTS
Session chaired by Dr Charles Avery, London

Dr Barbara Uppenkamp, Hamburg, The funeral chapel and tomb monument of
Edo Wiemken in Jever

Dr Douglas Brine, National Gallery of Art, Washington, The memorial of
Jacques de Croy, bishop of Cambrai, at Cologne Cathedral

Professor Piet Lombaerde, University of Antwerp, Two controversial
statues in the public space: Alva in Antwerp and Erasmus in Rotterdam

FOREIGN PATRONAGE VS. EXPORTS
Session chaired by Prof Dr Konrad Ottenheym, University of Utrecht

Dr Eveliina Juntunen, University of Bamberg, Paludanus and his works for
the protestant gentry in north-eastern Germany

Dr Alexandra Lipińska, University of Wrocław (Poland), „Ein tafel
von
Alabaster zu Antorff bestellen“: Imports of the South Netherlandish
alabaster sculpture in Central-Eastern Europe

Almudena Pérez de Tudela, Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid, Jonghelinck in
the Spanish Royal Collections

Dr Dorothea Diemer, University of Augsburg, Alexander Colin and the
German courts

Keynote conclusions by Dr Nicholas Penny, National Gallery, London, and
Prof Dr Krista De Jonge, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Concluding discussion

Closing Lecture illustrated with 16th-century music by Dr Christine
Ballman, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Roland de Lassus [Orlando di
Lasso] et son époque

Monday 10 March 2008: Excursion: Renaissance sculpture between Boussu
and Brussels

Boussu, funerary chapel and castle ruins, visit led by Marcel Capouillez
(château de Boussu)
Enghien, Saint-Nicolas de Myre (polychromed altarpiece and epitaphs)
Enghien, former Capuchin chapel (Mone)
Halle, discussion of the restoration/conservation project of the Mone
altarpiece led by Isabelle Leirens (Royal Institute for Cultural
Heritage, Brussels)
Brussels, cathedral (Mone) and treasury (Meit)

The programme is subject to change without prior notice

organised by:
Facultés universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur,
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Université de Liège
and The Low Countries Sculpture Society

Full programme and registration on:
http://www.lowcountriessculpture.org
http://www.lowcountriessculpture.org/mons08_en.pdf