Study Dutch Art Where It Was Made!
Introduction to the Study of 17th Century Dutch Art in The Netherlands 
Tuesday, August 15, 2006 - Friday, August 25, 2006
An international summer course of The Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University (AMSU) in association with The Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD), The Hague, and The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
The aim of this intensive 10-days course is to give an in-depth introduction to the study of 17th-century Dutch paintings, drawings and prints. Participants will gain knowledge on how to use the research facilities available in the Netherlands and will visit the most important collections of Dutch art under the expert guidance of museum curators and other specialists.
A series of lectures and workshops focussing on specific topics and research methods will be given by prominent researchers from Dutch universities and museums. During the programme there will be ample opportunity for discussion, if possible in front of the original works of art, and the participants are offered the opportunity to build up a network of contacts with scholars, curators and institutes in the Netherlands which may facilitate their future study of Dutch art.
A limited number of scholarships have been made available by the Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture & Science for participants from Central- and Eastern Europe and Turkey (course fee and accommodation). These do not cover travel expenses or meals and are subject to a selection procedure. In order to apply for a scholarship, you need to send in a letter of motivation, together with your application form and recent curriculum vitae.
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Applicant Profile
The course is primarily intended for graduate students and professional art historians specializing in the field of Dutch art.
Application 
Candidates will be selected on the basis of their detailed curriculum vitae and letter of motivation.
Applicants should submit their completed and signed application form, curriculum vitae and letter of motivation (by post or fax) as soon as possible but no later than Tuesday, May 30, 2006.
Applications are completed after full payment of the course fee is received.
AMSU Course Name: ARTH-2.
Details
Date: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 - Friday, August 25, 2006
Application Deadline: Tuesday, May 30, 2006.
Language of Instruction: English.
Location: Amsterdam, Haarlem, Utrecht, Gouda, Rotterdam & The Hague.
Fee: € 900,- (including lunches on course days and public transport in The Netherlands).
Course Organizer: The Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University (AMSU), RKD - The Netherlands Institute for Art History, Rijksmuseum.
Coordination: Kiki Nelson, The Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University (AMSU).
Registration: Confirmed participants are expected to register between 15.00 PM and 17.00 PM on Tuesday, August 15, 2006 at the building Felix Meritis, located at Keizersgracht 324 in Amsterdam. Registration will be followed by an opening lecture on The New Rijksmuseum by Peter Sigmond, after which welcome drinks will be served.
Course Leaders
Edwin Buijsen (Netherlands) - The Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD).
Related: Organisation: The Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD); People: Huigen Leeflang; People: Elmer Kolfin.
Links: The Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD).
Elmer Kolfin (Netherlands) - University of Amsterdam (UvA).
Related: Organisation: University of Amsterdam (UvA); People: Edwin Buijsen; People: Huigen Leeflang.
Links: University of Amsterdam (UvA).
Huigen Leeflang (Netherlands) - Rijksmuseum.
Related: Organisation: Rijksmuseum; People: Edwin Buijsen; People: Elmer Kolfin.
Links: Rijksmuseum.
Lecturers & Workshop Leaders
Pieter Biesboer (Netherlands) - Frans Hals Museum.
Yvonne Bleyerveld (Netherlands) - Vrije Universiteit (VU).
Frans Blom (Netherlands) - University of Amsterdam (UvA).
Annetje Boersma (Netherlands) - Restorer.
Marion Bolten (Netherlands) - The Senate.
Inge Broekman (Netherlands) - University of Amsterdam (UvA).
Edwin Buijsen (Netherlands) - The Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD).
Taco Dibbits (Netherlands) - Rijksmuseum.
Charles Dumas (Netherlands) - The Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD).
Xander van Eck (Netherlands) - University Utrecht (UU).
Rudi Ekkart (Netherlands) - The Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD).
Jan Piet Filedt Kok (Netherlands) - Rijksmuseum.
Michiel Franken (Netherlands) - The Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD).
Jeroen Giltay (Netherlands) - Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
Anne van Grevenstein (Netherlands) - Conservator of Paintings/Director; Limburg Conservation Institute (SRAL).
Peter Hecht (Netherlands) - University Utrecht (UU).
Anouk Janssen (Netherlands) - Vrije Universiteit (VU).
Koenraad Jonckheere (Netherlands) - University of Amsterdam (UvA).
Marijke de Kinkelder (Netherlands) - The Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD).
Christie Klinkert (Netherlands) - Rijksmuseum.
Elmer Kolfin (Netherlands) - University of Amsterdam (UvA).
Frauke Laarman (Netherlands) - University of Amsterdam (UvA).
Friso Lammertse (Netherlands) - Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
Huigen Leeflang (Netherlands) - Rijksmuseum.
Ad Leerintveld (Netherlands) - Koninklijke Bibliotheek.
Ger Luijten (Netherlands) - Rijksmuseum.
Volker Manuth (Netherlands) - Radboud University.
Fred Meijer (Netherlands) - The Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD).
Norbert Middelkoop (Netherlands) - Amsterdam Historical Museum.
Judith Niessen (Netherlands) - Sotheby's Amsterdam.
Petria Noble (Netherlands) - Mauritshuis.
Michiel Plomp (Netherlands) - Teylers Museum.
Carol Pottasch (Netherlands) - Mauritshuis.
Marijn Schapelhouman (Netherlands) - Rijksmuseum.
Eddy Schavemaker (Netherlands) - Noortman Master Paintings.
Peter Sigmond (Netherlands) - Rijksmuseum.
Eric Jan Sluijter (Netherlands) - University of Amsterdam (UvA).
Nicolette Sluijter (Netherlands).
Irina Sokolova (Russia) - State Hermitage Museum.
Anna Tummers (Netherlands) - University of Amsterdam (UvA).
Jaap van der Veen (Netherlands) - Rembrandthuis.
Lyckle de Vries (Netherlands).
Thijs Weststeijn (UK) - Warburg Institute.
Ernst van de Wetering (Netherlands) - Art historian, Head of the Rembrandt Research Project; Rijksmuseum.
Marieke de Winkel (Netherlands).
Advisory Board
Yvonne Bleyerveld (Netherlands) - Vrije Universiteit (VU).
Celeste Brusati (USA) - University of Michigan.
Taco Dibbits (Netherlands) - Rijksmuseum.
Reindert Falkenburg (Netherlands) - Universiteit Leiden.
Jan Piet Filedt Kok (Netherlands) - Rijksmuseum.
Peter Hecht (Netherlands) - University Utrecht (UU).
Ger Luijten (Netherlands) - Rijksmuseum.
Volker Manuth (Netherlands) - Radboud University.
Eric Jan Sluijter (Netherlands) - University of Amsterdam (UvA).
Gerdien Verschoor (Netherlands) - CODART.
Programme
Tuesday, August 15, 2006: Arrival
Location: Amsterdam, Felix Meritis
15.00 PM Registration
17.00 PM Opening lecture on The New Rijksmuseum by Peter Sigmond
18.00 PM Welcome and drinks
Wednesday, August 16, 2006: Around Rembrandt
Location: Amsterdam
Morning: • Lecture by Thijs Weststeijn: Samuel van Hoogstratens 'Inleyding tot de Hooge Schoole der Schilderkonst'
• Workshop on Rembrandt documents by Jaap van der Veen in the Gemeentearchief
Afternoon: • Visit to the Philips Wing of the Rijksmuseum
• Lecture by Taco Dibbits: The new presentation of works of art in the Rijksmuseum
Evening: • Workshop on Rembrandt by Ernst van de Wetering in the Philips Wing
Thursday, August 17, 2006: Prints & Their Iconography
Location: Amsterdam, Printroom
Morning: • Introduction to the printroom and library by Huigen Leeflang
• Workshops
* Yvonne Bleyerveld: The way to redemption. Moral and religious allegories in Antwerp prints (1576-1585)
* Anouk Janssen: The good, the bad and the elderly. The representation of old age in 16th- and 17th-century prints from the Netherlands
* Christie Klinkert: Informative art. The early-modern newsprint
* Ger Luijten: The professional printmaker and the peintre graveur in the 17th century. A confrontation.
Afternoon: • Continuation of workshops
Evening: • Visit to the exhibition of Rembrandt drawings in the Philips Wing of the Rijksmuseum with Marijn Schapelhouman
Friday, August 18, 2006: Dressed & Undressed in Haarlem
Location: Haarlem
Morning: • Workshops in the Teylers Museum
* Michiel Plomp: The collection of 17th-century Dutch drawings in Teylers Museum
* Huigen Leeflang: Goltzius' drawings and prints
Afternoon: • Introduction to the Frans Halsmuseum by Pieter Biesboer
• Workshops in the Frans Halsmuseum
* Marieke de Winkel: Dress in 17th-century paintings
* Fred Meijer: Still-life painting in Haarlem
* Anne van Grevenstein: Painting technique of Goltzius, Cornelis Cornelisz. and Frans Hals
Saturday, August 19, 2006: Catholic Art in a Protestant Country?
Location: Utrecht & Gouda
Morning: • Workshop on Painting in Utrecht by Nicolette Sluijter in the Centraal Museum
• Visit to the Gertrudis-chapel in Utrecht with Xander van Eck
Afternoon: • Visit to the Sint-Jans Church (16th-century stained glass windows) with Xander van Eck
Sunday, August 20, 2006: No Programme
Monday, August 21, 2006: Around the Binnenhof
Location: The Hague
Morning: • Workshops on The recent restoration and technical research of Rembrandt paintings by Petria Noble and Carol Pottasch in the Mauritshuis
Afternoon: • Visit to the Binnenhof: Lairessezaal with Lyckle de Vries and Conference Room of the Senate (Eerste Kamer) with Marion Bolten
• Visit to Huis Schuylenburgh (Residence of the German ambassador) with Charles Dumas
Tuesday, August 22, 2006: Art & the Court
Location: The Hague, RKD / Royal Library
Morning: • Introduction and tour of the RKD; presentation of digital projects
Afternoon: • Lecture by Elmer Kolfin: Political imagery of the Stadholder
• Workshops on Constantijn Huygens in the Royal Library
* Frans Blom: Autobiographical documents
* Ad Leerintveld: The 'Huygens collection' in the Royal Library
* Inge Broekman: Huygens and the visual arts
• Visit to the Huygensmuseum Hofwijck, Voorburg
Wednesday, August 23, 2006: Connoisseurship in Past & Present
Location: The Hague, RKD
Morning: • Lecture by Anna Tummers: Connoisseurship of Dutch 17th-century paintings
• Lecture by Judith Niessen: Attribution and the auction house
• Lecture by Eddy Schavemaker: Attribution and the art trade
• Discussion
Afternoon: • Workshops (choice) on various attribution problems
* Fred Meijer: Still-life painting
* Marijke de Kinkelder: Problems of attribution concerning Dutch 17th-century landscape paintings. Confusions and clarifications on minor artists
* Michiel Franken: Rembrandt and his workshop
* Edwin Buijsen: Adriaen van de Venne: IRR as a tool for attribution?
• Closing remarks
• Drinks in Museum Bredius
Thursday, August 24, 2006: Portraiture / Research Projects
Location: Amsterdam Historical Museum
Morning: • Lecture by Volker Manuth: 'Portrait Historié': defining a research project
• Lecture by Frauke Laarmann: Do's and don'ts in Dutch family group portraiture. The development of the pictorial tradition in the first half of the 17th century
• Discussion on research projects with an introduction by Eric Jan Sluijter
Afternoon: • Workshops at the Amsterdam Historical Museum
* Norbert Middelkoop: Group portraits
* Rudi Ekkart: Individual portraits
Evening: • Drinks with invited art historians from Dutch museums and universities in Felix Meritis
• Lecture by Irina Sokolova: The Semenov collection of Dutch art in the Ermitage
Friday, August 25, 2006: Beyond the Golden Age
Location: The Hague, RKD / Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Morning: • Lecture by Koenraad Jonckheere: The role of agents and diplomats in the art trade in the Dutch Republic around 1700
• Lecture by Peter Hecht: The shaping of the canon of Dutch art
Afternoon: • Introduction to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen by Jeroen Giltay
• Lectures/workshops at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen:
* Jan Piet Filedt Kok: Early North Netherlandish painting
* Annetje Boersma and Friso Lammertse: Rubens. Restoration and research
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