Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage
Events of the year 2010
February 10-12 2010 - Tree rings, art and archaeology: inscriptions opened
The Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (IRPA/KIK), with the collaboration of the Université de Liège, the Vrije Universtiteit Brussel, the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Association du Patrimoine Artistique, organises a conference concerning the contribution of dendrochronology to human sciences. It will take place in Brussels on February 10-12 2010.
December 3, 2009 - 10th Art History Seminar
Léon Delaissé et l'exposition La miniature flamande (1959): un demi-siècle de recherches sur la miniature "bourguignonne": 10th Art History Seminar organised by the Documentation Department of IRPA/KIK.
November 18, 2009 - Study day sculpture and polychromy
In partnership with the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, the Centre de recherche et de restauration des Musées de France and the contactgroup FNRS Historiographie et épistémologie de l’histoire de l’art, IRPA/KIK organizes the second study day in the series La restauration: connaissance et reconnaissance de l’œuvre, focussing on the practice and theory of restoration. The study day will be exclusively dedicated to sculpture. The inscriptions are closed! Abstracts.
November 12-13 2009 - Technical days CCRBC
In cooperation with the Centro de Conservación y Restauración de Bienes Culturales (CCRBC) of Simancas (Spain), on November 12 and 13 IRPA/KIK will host two study days focusing on the conservation-restoration of easel painting and polychrome wood sculpture. This event follows on from the collaboration agreement signed in 2008 with the Junta de Castilla y Léon, to which the CCRBC is affiliated. The programme will include lectures by the director of the Centre, Milagros Burón Álvarez, and by two of its conservator-restorers. Only the activities in the afternoon will be open to the public.
From October 22 to October 24, 2009 - Colloquium Rogier van der Weyden in Context
The K.U.Leuven is hosting the Colloquium Rogier van der Weyden in Context from 22 to 24 October 2009. This 2009 colloquium is the XVII Symposium for the Study of Underdrawing and Technology in Painting.
October 8-9 2009 - Symposium NACHO
A two-day symposium is organised by the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (IRPA-KIK) and the University of Antwerp in the framework of the Interuniversity Attraction Pole (IAP) project Non-destructive Analysis of Cultural Heritage Objects (NACHO) financed by the Belgian Science Policy. Besides the partners of the network NACHO project (Université de Liège, Universiteit Antwerpen, Universiteit Gent, Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France (C2RMF)), scientists from IRPA-KIK and several invited speakers will present their expertise and research activities in the three sessions program focused on IR and Raman Spectroscopy, X-ray based methods and Rembrandt's materials and technique. The symposium closes with an organised visit of the laboratories and the restoration workshops of IRPA-KIK. Programme
September 26 2009-February 28 2010 - Louis Counet Exhibition
As a scientific partner IRPA/KIK has actively contributed to the exhibition at the Stadtmuseum of Trier dedicated to the painter of Liège origins Louis Counet (1652-1721): Barockmalerei an Maas und Mosel: Louis Counet und die Lütticher Malerschule. In the framework of this partnership, IRPA/KIK also photographed all Counets works that are conserved in Belgium. From September 26 2009 untill February 28 2010 at Stadtmuseum Simeonstift in Trier.
The stone and stone-like materials workshop has completed the study and the conservation-restoration treatment of the Entombment of Ath.
July 2009 – Altarpiece of St. John the Baptist: treatment completed
Over the past year, the Altarpiece of St. John the Baptist from the Church of St. John the Baptist in Hemelveerdegem has been conserved and studied at IRPA/KIK. The conservation treatment is now complete.
July 1 and 2, 2009 - Specialists of IRPA/KIK at Valladolid
In the framework of it's cooperation with the Junta de Castilla y León, on July 1 and 2 IRPA/KIK takes part in the study days organized by the Centro de Restauración de Bienes Culturales and the Dirección General de Patrimonio Cultural of Valladolid. They will focus on Flemish and Spanish panel painting from the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. Several specialists of IRPA/KIK will share their expertise in the domain of Flemish panel paintings preserved in Spain. See the program
June 30, 2009 - First AR&PA forum
On Tuesday June 30 IRPA/KIK welcomes the first AR&PA forum, Economics of Cultural Heritage in Europe, organized by the Consejería de la Cultura y del Turismo (Spanish regional ministry for culture and tourism) and the Junta de Castilla y León (Castile and Leon Government, Spain). Institutions, researchers, professionals and specialists in the domain of conservation and management of cultural heritage will focus on the increasingly important role of culture in the economic development of industrialized countries. They will demonstrate the feasibility of an economy based on cultural heritage. At 4 pm the conclusions will be presented, followed by the AR&PA fair 2010: Society and Cultural Heritage: Cultural Heritage as a motor of development.
June 23-September 27, 2009: Rembrandt exhibition at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
The Portrait of Nicolaes van Bambeeck is the only work by Rembrandt in a Belgian collection. The painting has just undergone a two-year conservation treatment at IRPA/KIK. Its return to the Royal Museums of Fine Arts is celebrated by an exhibition featuring its pair, the Portrait of Agatha Bas (British Royal Collection). Drawings by Rembrandt and paintings and drawings by his pupils and artistic heirs are also exhibited. In one of the exhibition halls IRPA/KIK shows the technical side of the restoration: another way of looking at the painting...
June 24-September 20, 2009 - BELvue museum exhibition
This summer the Léon Courtin-Marcelle Bouché Fund presents an overview at the BELvue museum of its activities over the past five years with regards to the saveguarding of works of art from Belgian artists. The Fund will exhibit its purchases, restoration projects and publications as well as works of art from the Léon Courtin and Marcelle Bouché legacy. On several occasions IRPA/KIK has benefited from the support of the Courtin-Bouché Fund. Their sponsorship led to the current study and conservation-restoration treatment at IRPA/KIK of the Sedes Sapientiae from the Church of St. Laurent of Séron-sous-Forville (province of Namur). The sculpture will be shown at the BELvue museum during this treatment. From June 24 until September 20, 2009.
May 16 and 17, 2009 - Exhibition: Les murs ont des couleurs
On the occasion of Printemps des Musées 2009, La Fonderie presents a new exhibition on the theme of wallpaper: Les murs ont des couleurs. This is the ideal opportunity to rediscover the varied ranges of motifs, materials, colours and techniques that represent the history of taste and thus the evolution of society and its thinking. A number of samples have been lent by IRPA/KIK and the Administration of Monuments and Sites of the Brussels Region, partners of the event and initiators of a large project of conservation-restoration and research on wallpaper.
Mai 8-December 31 – Exhibition: pre-Eyckian paintings
Until December 31 2009 a focus exhibition at the Musée provincial des Arts anciens du Namurois takes a new look at the Walcourt panels and the Shrine of St. Maurice. Both works are examples of pre-Eyckian painting, produced around 1400 in the Southern Netherlands and preceding the art of the Flemish Primitives. This group of paintings is the subject of a long-term study project at IRPA/KIK. The Walcourt panels and the Shrine of St. Maurice have been studied in detail. The exhibition sheds light on the different stages of this research: macro photography, radiography, infrared reflectography, dendrochronology, pigments analysis... For each of the two works of art there is a visitor's guide.
March 12, 2009 - Nouvelle publication : Pre-Eyckian Panel Painting in the Low Countries
Cette publication pose des jalons déterminants pour la recherche sur la peinture antérieure aux Primitifs flamands. Pour la première fois, un groupe appréciable de panneaux pré-eyckiens est soumis à une recherche interdisciplinaire approfondie. En coédition avec le Centre d'étude de la peinture du quinzième siècle dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux et la Principauté de Liège, récemment intégré à l'IRPA.
March 2009 - Royalties and scientific research: resolution of the RIHA
The RICH is cosignatory of a resolution emanating from the International Association of the Institutes of History of Art (RIHA) which claims an exemption of the royalties for work of scientific research.
Ce 1er janvier 2009, l’ASBL Centre d’étude de la peinture du quinzième siècle dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux et la Principauté de Liège a été dissoute et incorporée à l’Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique. Deux nouvelles publications sont annoncées.
Du 23 janvier au 1er février 2009 - L'IRPA à la Foire des Antiquaires (BRAFA)
Pour la deuxième année consécutive, l’IRPA participe à la Foire des Antiquaires. Le public pourra ainsi à nouveau découvrir les projets de l’Institut et se familiariser avec la recherche en histoire de l’art et la restauration d’œuvres d’art.