NECROPOLIS UNITED aims at developing an integrated, sustainable, open-source database on reported migrants’ deaths in Europe. It integrates and updates the source data of three available databases that present fragmented ...read more
The progress made in the fields of technology, information theory, computational modeling, and immersive multisensory displays put the notion of the body as archive in a new perspective, especially as ...read more
Like Instagram today, new print technology caused a revolutionary increase in the number of images in the early modern period. In that same era, art and technology became separated. Today, ...read more
Research conducted in the context of the current conservation/restoration project of Jan van Eyck’s Ghent Altarpiece and in preparation of our recent exhibition ‘Van Eyck: an Optical Revolution’, has opened ...read more
Style, defined as the formal and visual characteristics of a human action or artefact is loaded with meaning and associations. Style can work as a distinction mechanism shaping social relations, ...read more
Recent developments in animal ethology, anthropology and evolutionary psychology have urged a questioning of traditional boundaries between humans and animals, arguing that traditional divides between humans and animals, nature and ...read more
The Brussels couture house Norine was led from c. 1915 to 1952 by the charismatic couple Honorine Deschryver, dite "Norine" (1887-1977), and Paul-Gustave Van Hecke (1887-1967). Although Norine is all ...read more
The Ghent Altarpiece, a late-medieval painting by the Van Eyck brothers, was repainted in 1550. The current conservation treatment of the altarpiece indicates that extensive representational modifications were made, which ...read more
The research project Hive Mind proposes a community- and institution-based approach to the study of early modern women and of their contributions to the arts and culture of the Low Countries. ...read more