Projecten
Beneath the texture: 17th century still life painting technology explained Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen
Beneath the texture: 17th century still life painting technology explained Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen
Being a Salonnière: New Perspectives for Historically Informed Performance.
Orpheus Instituut
Within the framework of a salon gathering, Ivana's aim is to question present performance practices of 18th- and 19th-century music and to reconsider paradoxes of established historically informed practices, as well as explore their limitations and potentials. Using the cultural life of Dubrovnik [Croatia] as a groundwork, she is putting myself in a role of a 21st-century salonnière in order to both re-create salon performances of the past ...
BELVAU Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Today, building vaults is no longer part of everyday building practice. However, for centuries vaults had been regarded as the ideal structure to span imposing spaces in cloisters, churches, cathedrals and palaces. Several studies have been devoted to the topic worldwide and cover the evolution of vaulting from Antiquity until its decline, typically situated around the 18th century.
However, the introduction of new ...
The Art of Fingering on the Pianoforte: A Comprehensive and Comparative Study of Clementi’s Didactical Works Applied to Period and Modern Instruments Orpheus Instituut
Clementi’s didactical opuses (Introduction to the Art of Playing on the Pianoforte with its Appendix, the ...
Schopenhauer KU Leuven
Renovatie van 19de-eeuwse glasoverkappingen: het gebruik van structureel glas als versterkingsstrategie. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
"Toen Politieke Economie nog Populair Was": De Receptie van Politieke Economie in Groot-Brittannië, 1817-1847 KU Leuven
Ever since C.P. Snow first coined the phrase, it has been widely accepted that the history of public and academic discourse is one of a widening divide between “two cultures,” generally designated as literature and science. This view is especially pervasive in accounts of the first half of the 19th century, a period in which artists and writers increasingly defined themselves against scientists and vice versa. Even though ...
Effect of mortality on marriage and fertility in Belgium, Germany and Sweden, 1700-1930 KU Leuven
The study aims to analyse, based on historical data, the sociological and bio-evolutionary effects on long-term fertility trends in the 19th and early 20th century. In a first stage, this research will investigate the difference between the illegitimacy rate in rural and urban areas in Flanders (Belgium) and the reproductive outcome of illegitimate children. In a second stage, the research will focus on the influence of Y-DNA haplogroups on ...