In Summer 2024 (26.4.24-4.8.24) the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin are holding a major exhibition devoted to the drawings of the Dutch artist Maarten van Heemskerck.
This seminar will be centered on these drawings, which Van Heemskerck executed on a study trip to Rome in the 1530s. It will consider the precedent set by Jan van Scorel, a senior artist who made a pilgrimage and study trip to Rome in the 1520s and who inspired Van Heemskerck to do the same. The focus will then turn to Van Heemskerck's journey to Rome, 1532-1536/37, and the fascinating drawings he made of the city's antiquities, landscape, collections, and churches, including St Peter's Basilica when it was still under construction.
Most of Van Heemskerck's drawings have been preserved in two albums in the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett. Important new research in the last 15 years has shed light on these famous drawings, which used to be prized primarily for their supposed documentary value. New methods however have focused on the combination of accuracy and fantasy in Van Heemskerck's graphic work, the variety of techniques he employed, the interaction between his oeuvre as a painter and draughtsman, as well as the impact of his network of acquaintances in Rome. We will consider these issues, as well as the commissions Van Heemskerck received in Rome from important patrons. Comparative examples of other Northern European and Italian artists and their approaches will be explored.
The seminar will review the recent literature on Van Heemskerck and assess the new discoveries presented in the exhibition. It will consider the wider context of Van Heemskerck's artistic milieu and his try to gain insight into his perspective as a Northern European artist in Rome in the 1530s, shortly after the Sack of 1527 and in the midst of the Protestant Reformation.
Hausarbeit oder mündliche Prüfung am 24. Juli 2024, 10-14 Uhr.
Die Veranstaltung wurde 2 mal im Vorlesungsverzeichnis SoSe 2024 gefunden:
