The allegorical, emblematic, and scientific representations in lecture notebooks of the Old University of Louvain
(2019) Study day of Palet, research team on Flemish art — Location: KU Leuven, Leuven (10.May.2019)
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- My postdoctoral research focuses on the representations contained in the handwritten lecture notebooks produced in Louvain in the early modern period. These documents, not yet thoroughly studied from an art historical point of view, constitute an eloquent testimony of the cultural, intellectual, and social role fulfilled by universities at that time. This paper addresses two issues. Firstly, what are the rhetorical and visual strategies used in such representations to convey the scientific content? We will see in particular how the Western tradition of emblematic language was employed and adapted to the academic message. And secondly, what can we discover about the learning mechanisms those images implied?
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Ghent University Vakgroep voor Kunst-, Muziek- en Theaterwetenschappen
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de Mûelenaere, G. (2019). The allegorical, emblematic, and scientific representations in lecture notebooks of the Old University of Louvain. Study day of Palet, research team on Flemish art, KU Leuven, Leuven. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/103901