Articles Van Eyck by Till-Holger Borchert
Colnaghi Foundation Journal, 2024
The article is discussing reflections of a lost work of Jan van Eyck through panel painting and b... more The article is discussing reflections of a lost work of Jan van Eyck through panel painting and book illumination in the Low Countries from 1430 to c. 1530
Revivals or Survival? Resurgences of the Icon from the 15th century to the present day, 2023
This essay looks at the various versions of Jan van Eyck's depiction of the Holy Face and attempt... more This essay looks at the various versions of Jan van Eyck's depiction of the Holy Face and attempts to provide a new context for understanding.
西洋中世研究 第14号, 2023
本稿は，2022 年3 月5 日にオンラインで行われたティル・ホルガー・ボルヒェルト氏の講演「The
legacy of Jan van Eyck in the Burgundian Nethe... more 本稿は，2022 年3 月5 日にオンラインで行われたティル・ホルガー・ボルヒェルト氏の講演「The
legacy of Jan van Eyck in the Burgundian Netherlands and the rest of Europe, c. 1440-1470」の邦訳であ
る。
ボルヒェルト氏は，北方ルネサンス美術研究の世界的権威であり，ブリュージュのフルーニンヘ
美術館の主任学芸員（2003 ～ 2014 年），ブリュージュ美術館組合理事長（2014 ～ 2021 年）を務め，
ヨーロッパ各国とアメリカにおいて初期ネーデルラント美術に関する展覧会を多数企画・運営して
きた。代表的な展覧会として，Jan van Eyck, the Flemish Primitives and the Mediterranean World 1430-
1530 (2002)，From van Eyck to Dürer: Early Netherlandish Art and Central Europe, 1430-1530 (2010-11)
が挙げられる。2022 年4 月より，アーヘンのズエルモント・ルートヴィヒ美術館長を務めている。
本講演会は，科学研究費助成事業特別研究員奨励費（課題番号19J00314）による招聘の一環であ
り，西洋中世学会の後援を得ている。ボルヒェルト氏には，日本の聴衆の関心を考慮いただき，初期
ネーデルラント美術の巨匠ヤン・ファン・エイクの芸術がブルゴーニュ公領ネーデルラントおよび
ヨーロッパにおいていかに受容され，継承されていったかという点を広く論じていただいた。当日の
講演は，長年にわたり膨大な量の作品調査を重ねてきたボルヒェルト氏ならではの緻密な図像分析
と，ヨーロッパ各地をダイナミックに捉える視点をあわせ持つものとなり，質疑応答においても，豊
かで示唆深い見解が示された。本講演原稿の紹介が，美術史研究はもちろん，西洋中世研究全体の発
展にも資することを願ってやまない。 （今井澄子 記）
Ingenium et labor - Festschrift für Antoni Ziemba, 2020
This article looks at the functions of inscriptions on paintings by Jan van Eyck and focusses on ... more This article looks at the functions of inscriptions on paintings by Jan van Eyck and focusses on the possible functional significance of the Quartrain of the Ghent Altarpiece
Connaisseurship: Essays in Honour of Fred G. Meijer, edited by Charles Dumas, Rudi Ekkart and Carla van de Puttelaar, 2020
The article looks at the inscription on the frame and at the possible original function of the po... more The article looks at the inscription on the frame and at the possible original function of the portrait.
Van Eyck: An Optical Revolution, 2020
This paper discusses the impact of the works of Jan van Eyck and his workshop in European Art bef... more This paper discusses the impact of the works of Jan van Eyck and his workshop in European Art before and around 1450.
Het einde van de middeleeuwen. 50 kunstwerken uit de tijd van Bosch en Erasmus (Festschrift Jos Koldeweij), Nov 15, 2019
A short text on the Madonna of Jan Vos in the aftermath of Emma Capron's exhibition "The Charterh... more A short text on the Madonna of Jan Vos in the aftermath of Emma Capron's exhibition "The Charterhouse of Bruges: Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus and Jan Vos" in the Frick Collection in 2018. In this paper, conceptual aspects of the painting are discussed in the light of the fact that Van Eyck likely died during its execution
Colnaghi Studies , vol 4., 2019
This paper examines the Genuese Patron's of Jan van Eyck and looks at the reception of his lost "... more This paper examines the Genuese Patron's of Jan van Eyck and looks at the reception of his lost "Lomellini-Triptych"
The Ghent Altarpiece - Van Eyck: Art, History, Science and Religion, ed. Danny Praet & Maximiliaan P. J. Martens , 2019
THE CHARTERHOUSE OF BRUGES Emma Capron with Maryan Ainsworth and Till-Holger Borchert, 2018
The Ghent Altarpiece: Reproductions, Interpretations, Scholarly Debates (eds S. Kemperdick, J. Rößler, J.C. Heyder, 2017
Short survey-summary on the likely involvement of the workshop of both Hubert and Jan van Eyck in... more Short survey-summary on the likely involvement of the workshop of both Hubert and Jan van Eyck in the production of the Ghent Altarpiece.
Van Eyck Studies. Papers Presented at the 18th Symposium for the Study of Underdrawing and Technology in Painting,. Brussels, 19-21 September 2012
In 2009, the portrait of Margarete van Eyck was cleaned in London's National Gallery and thoroug... more In 2009, the portrait of Margarete van Eyck was cleaned in London's National Gallery and thoroughly examined. The first part of the paper discusses the results of the IRR examination and compared with Van Eyck's portraits at the National Gallery in London. The 2nd part of the article analyses form and function of the underdrawing in Van Eyck's portraits and raises questions regarding the production process of portraiture in his workshop.
Article surveys the drawings of the Van Eyck Group.
in: La pensée du regard
Études d’histoire d... more Article surveys the drawings of the Van Eyck Group.
in: La pensée du regard
Études d’histoire de l’art du Moyen Âge offertes à Christian Heck
Editées par Pascale Charron, Marc Gil, Ambre Vilain
Brepols (Turnhout) 2016
An Eyckian Crucifixion Explored: Ten Essays on a drawing
Discusses the Eyckian Crucifixion drawing recently acquired by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
S. Kemperdick, F. Lammertse (ed): De weg naar van Eyck, 2012
M. De Mey, M. P. J. Martens, C. Stroo (ed.), Vision and Material: Interaction between Art and Science in Jan van Eyck's time. , 2012
2012 4 D/2012/0455/13 ISBN: 978 90 6569 105 7
Van Eyck bis Dürer. Altniederländische Meister und die Kunst in Mitteleuropa, 2010
Till-Holger Borchert (ed), The Age of Van Eyck: The Mediterranean World and Early Netherlandish Painting
discusses when and how italians started to associate oil painting with Van Eyck
Articles Memling by Till-Holger Borchert
Harmony in Bright Colours , 2021
Discusses workshop practices of the Memling workshop in Bruges
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Articles Van Eyck by Till-Holger Borchert
legacy of Jan van Eyck in the Burgundian Netherlands and the rest of Europe, c. 1440-1470」の邦訳であ
る。
ボルヒェルト氏は，北方ルネサンス美術研究の世界的権威であり，ブリュージュのフルーニンヘ
美術館の主任学芸員（2003 ～ 2014 年），ブリュージュ美術館組合理事長（2014 ～ 2021 年）を務め，
ヨーロッパ各国とアメリカにおいて初期ネーデルラント美術に関する展覧会を多数企画・運営して
きた。代表的な展覧会として，Jan van Eyck, the Flemish Primitives and the Mediterranean World 1430-
1530 (2002)，From van Eyck to Dürer: Early Netherlandish Art and Central Europe, 1430-1530 (2010-11)
が挙げられる。2022 年4 月より，アーヘンのズエルモント・ルートヴィヒ美術館長を務めている。
本講演会は，科学研究費助成事業特別研究員奨励費（課題番号19J00314）による招聘の一環であ
り，西洋中世学会の後援を得ている。ボルヒェルト氏には，日本の聴衆の関心を考慮いただき，初期
ネーデルラント美術の巨匠ヤン・ファン・エイクの芸術がブルゴーニュ公領ネーデルラントおよび
ヨーロッパにおいていかに受容され，継承されていったかという点を広く論じていただいた。当日の
講演は，長年にわたり膨大な量の作品調査を重ねてきたボルヒェルト氏ならではの緻密な図像分析
と，ヨーロッパ各地をダイナミックに捉える視点をあわせ持つものとなり，質疑応答においても，豊
かで示唆深い見解が示された。本講演原稿の紹介が，美術史研究はもちろん，西洋中世研究全体の発
展にも資することを願ってやまない。 （今井澄子 記）
in: La pensée du regard
Études d’histoire de l’art du Moyen Âge offertes à Christian Heck
Editées par Pascale Charron, Marc Gil, Ambre Vilain
Brepols (Turnhout) 2016
Articles Memling by Till-Holger Borchert
legacy of Jan van Eyck in the Burgundian Netherlands and the rest of Europe, c. 1440-1470」の邦訳であ
る。
ボルヒェルト氏は，北方ルネサンス美術研究の世界的権威であり，ブリュージュのフルーニンヘ
美術館の主任学芸員（2003 ～ 2014 年），ブリュージュ美術館組合理事長（2014 ～ 2021 年）を務め，
ヨーロッパ各国とアメリカにおいて初期ネーデルラント美術に関する展覧会を多数企画・運営して
きた。代表的な展覧会として，Jan van Eyck, the Flemish Primitives and the Mediterranean World 1430-
1530 (2002)，From van Eyck to Dürer: Early Netherlandish Art and Central Europe, 1430-1530 (2010-11)
が挙げられる。2022 年4 月より，アーヘンのズエルモント・ルートヴィヒ美術館長を務めている。
本講演会は，科学研究費助成事業特別研究員奨励費（課題番号19J00314）による招聘の一環であ
り，西洋中世学会の後援を得ている。ボルヒェルト氏には，日本の聴衆の関心を考慮いただき，初期
ネーデルラント美術の巨匠ヤン・ファン・エイクの芸術がブルゴーニュ公領ネーデルラントおよび
ヨーロッパにおいていかに受容され，継承されていったかという点を広く論じていただいた。当日の
講演は，長年にわたり膨大な量の作品調査を重ねてきたボルヒェルト氏ならではの緻密な図像分析
と，ヨーロッパ各地をダイナミックに捉える視点をあわせ持つものとなり，質疑応答においても，豊
かで示唆深い見解が示された。本講演原稿の紹介が，美術史研究はもちろん，西洋中世研究全体の発
展にも資することを願ってやまない。 （今井澄子 記）
in: La pensée du regard
Études d’histoire de l’art du Moyen Âge offertes à Christian Heck
Editées par Pascale Charron, Marc Gil, Ambre Vilain
Brepols (Turnhout) 2016
Published in: John Marciari (ed): Hans Memling: Portraiture, Piety and a Reunited Altarpiece, London 2016
ISBN 978 94 9267 797 6
The Ghent Altarpiece or the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, by the
Van Eyck brothers (1432), is recognised worldwide as a great work
of art, and one of the most influential paintings ever made. It was
the world’s first major oil painting, and it is laced with religious
mysticism. The work almost reads like an A to Z of Christianity – from
the Annunciation to the symbolic sacrifice of Christ, with the ‘Mystic
Lamb’ on an altar in a heavenly meadow, bleeding into the Holy Grail.
For the first time, this book gathers together diverse insights on the
Ghent Altarpiece, the monumental polyptych that the brothers Hubert
and Jan van Eyck realised with the assistance of a large workshop
and advisers on the painting’s subject matters. This book has the
same aim: to bring together experts from the most diverse disciplines.
Only by combining the perspectives of (art) historians, philosophers,
religious studies scholars, mathematicians and specialists in optics
can one fully understand the riches and depth of this masterpiece.
Lavishly illustrated, including details that have come to light using
state-of-the-art techniques during the current conservation project and
are not always visible to the naked eye.
6
INTRODUCTION
From conservation
to re-evaluation:
an interdisciplinary
approach to
the Ghent Altarpiece
Maximiliaan P.J. Martens
& Danny Praet
p. 10
Chapter I
(ART) HISTORY
THE CITY
Ghent and the Burgundian state
in the fifteenth century
Marc Boone
p. 16
THE CLIENTS
A noble altarpiece:
the socio-historical context
of the painting
Frederik Buylaert & Erik Verroken
p. 50
THE CREATORS
The role of Hubert Van Eyck
in the Ghent Altarpiece
Maximiliaan P.J. Martens
p. 116
Jan Van Eyck and his workshop:
organisation, collaborators, legacy
Till-Holger Borchert
p. 138
SCIENCE
Virtual restoration and mathematical
analysis of the pearls in the Ghent
Altarpiece
Aleksandra Pižurica, Ljiljana Platiša,
Tijana Ružić, Bruno Cornelis, Ann Dooms,
Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Marc De Mey
& Ingrid Daubechies
p. 182
PERCEPTION
De visione Dei: optics, theology
and philosophy in the Ghent Altarpiece
Marc De Mey
p. 202
VIRTUES
De virtutibus Dei: ancient and
medieval philosophy of the virtues
in the Ghent Altarpiece
Danny Praet
p. 240
CRIME AND MYTH
The Ghent Altarpiece:
the most stolen artwork ever
Karel Mortier
p. 302
FILM
The Silence of the Mystic Lambs:
film, Van Eyck, Panofsky and Cauvin
Steven Jacobs
p. 320
PHOTOGRAPHY
The post-war life of
the Ghent Altarpiece
This book captures the variety of twenty-four papers presented at the symposium.
This book celebrates the reunion -- for the first time in twenty-four years and only the second time in their history -- of two masterpieces of early Netherlandish painting commissioned by the Carthusian monk Jan Vos during his tenure as prior of the Charterhouse of Bruges in the 1440s: The Frick Collection's "Virgin and Child with St. Barbara, St. Elizabeth, and Jan Vos", commissioned from Jan van Eyck and completed by his workshop; and the Gemäldegalerie's "Virgin and Child with St. Barbara and Jan Vos", painted by Petrus Christus. These panels are examined with a selection of objects that place them for the first time in the rich Carthusian context for which they were created. Drawing on recent technical examination and new archival research, this volume explores the panels' creation, patronage, and function in their rich Carthusian context.
The Carthusian order was one of the most austere strands of late medieval monasticism. In apparent contradiction to this asceticism, Carthusian monasteries became remarkable repositories of art, a material accumulation often attributed to lay patronage. However this explanation overlooks the ways in which the Carthusians themselves commissioned and used images for their daily devotions and liturgy, as well as their commemoration. The story of Jan Vos and his patronage of Jan van Eyck and Petrus Christus fundamentally informs our understanding of the role played by images in shaping monastic life and funerary strategies in late medieval Europe.