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Tuesday August 23 2011 / Culture & Science

The Impact of Oil. Historical painting techniques in early Netherlandish Painting

The aim of this intensive 10-day course of the Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University is to introduce the participants to the technical properties of 15th and early 16th century oil paintings on panel from the Northern Netherlands through a series of lectures, excursions and workshops.

The mornings will be devoted to presentations by members of the research project The Impact of Oil: A history of oil painting in the Low Countries and its consequences for the visual arts (1350-1550)  and a few excursions to relevant museum collections. The lectures will focus on the workshop practices in early Netherlandish painting and the technical aspects of the use of oil as a binding medium and its potential to create illusionistic effects. In the afternoons, a practical workshop will be given based on the study of original paintings from the Rijksmuseum collection, which will be on hand in the studio.

This summer course of the Amsterdam-Maastrich Summer University is organised in association with the Impact of Oil project (NWO, University of Utrecht and Amsterdam), University of Amsterdam (Conservation and restoration of cultural heritage), and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

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