Owing to their visual essence and status as a popular, modern medium, comics – newspaper strips, comics magazines and graphic novels – provide valuable insight into the transformation of collective consciousness. This project advances ...read more
FLEPOSTORE is a Ghent University based Flemish reference collection for researchers and students working in archaeology, geology and cultural heritage studies. The collection offers an online open access platform and ...read more
In the nineteenth century, public art exhibitions became the main place where artists could show and sell their work to the public. The Paris Salon is particularly well known, but ...read more
The study of Peter Paul Rubens’ life and work has always been strongly determined by the availability of ‘truthful’ reproductions. This dependence on the reproduced image inevitably alters the way ...read more
Contemporary opera tends to abandon traditional narratives and breaks the tight bond between the singer and the character. Using musicological and performance analysis in combination with composer interviews, Distorted Characters ...read more
Many early modern European works of art are not singular images but a combination of images with figurative marginalia, borders or frames. In general, art historical research addressing marginal imagery ...read more
This research project focuses on the handwritten lecture notebooks produced in the universities of the early modern Southern Netherlands. It intends to open up new horizons at the intersection of ...read more
"Typologies of Text and Image Relations (Cliffs/Caves)" is Research Cluster 3.4 of the project "From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions" (Cluster leader: Christoph Anderl)
In early modern Antwerp, civic joyous entries were more than just a purely political event with splendid festive decorations adorning the streets and façades. They were huge projects where many ...read more
In the contemporary performing arts practise, a re-evaluation of sound as an aesthetic strategy is at stake. Performers, choreographers and directors consciously experiment with the potential of sound as an ...read more