Colloque international : « Carthusians and Images », Louvain (Belgique), 15-17 mai 2025
Colloque international « Carthusians and Images. New Perspectives on Religious Art and Devotional Culture in the Late Medieval and Early Moderne Charterhouse » organisé par Ingrid Falque, Naïs Virenque et Tom Gaens (UAntwerpen)
15 -17 mai 2025
Leuven (Belgique), Karthuis (Tervuursevest 242c – site de l’ancienne chartreuse de Louvain)
Inscription : ingrid.falque (at)uclouvain.be
Infos : https://www.uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/incal/gemca/events/les-chartreux-et-les-images.-nouvelles-perspectives-sur-lart-et-la-culture-devotionnels-cartusiens-a
Programme :
Thursday May 15
9.00-9.30 Welcome
9.30 – 10.00 Introduction to the conference by Ingrid Falque
Session 1 Carthusians and Art: Discourses and Material Culture
10.00 – 10.20 Thor-Oona Pignarre-Altermatt (UCLouvain), Carthusian Discourses on Images: A Comparison between Dionysius, Blomevenna, and Lanspergius
10.20 – 10.40 Stephen Molvarec SJ (Boston College), The Charterhouse of Vauvert, Material Culture, and Eustache Le Sueur’s Images of Carthusian Life
10.40 – 11.00 Discussion
11.00 – 11.20 Coffee break
Session 2 Images and Carthusian Identity
11.20 – 11.40 Tonino Ceravolo (Deputazione di Storia Patria per la Calabria), The Carthusian Identity in the Engravings between the 16th and 17th Centuries
11.40 – 12.00 Romeo Pio Cristofori (Civic Museums of Ferrara), with Elisabetta Lopresti & Giuliana Marcolini. The “Golden Century” of Carthusian Art in the Domus Sancti Cristophori prope Ferrariam: Priors and Painters ad maiorem Ordinis Cartusiensis gloriam in the 17th Century
12.00 – 12.20 Discussion
Lunch break
Session 3 Carved Images for Carthusian Churches
14.00 – 14.20 Marcello Angheben (Université de Poitiers). Entre spiritualité cartusienne et programme politique : le retable de la chartreuse de Miraflores
14.20 – 14.40 Irene Graziani (Università di Bologna). ‘Wooden Prayers’: Biagio de Marchi and the Choir Stalls of the Certosa di San Girolamo in Bologna
14.40 – 15.00 Discussion
15.00 – 15.15 Coffee break
Session 4 Carthusian Images for Communal Use
15.15 – 15.35 Cécile Beuzelin (Université Paul-Valéry-Montpellier 3). Le cycle de la Passion du Christ pour le grand cloître de la Chartreuse de Galluzzo (1523-1527) : une invention de Jacopo Pontormo ?
15.35 – 15.55 Nicolas Sarzeaud (Villa Médicis). Vénérer la contrefaçon : un culte à copie du saint Suaire dans la chartreuse de Cologne sous le prieurat de Pierre Blomevenna.
15.55 – 16.15 Giovanni Malpelo (Certosa di Farneta). The Frescoes by Stefano Cassiani in the Vault of the Church of the Certosa di Farneta (Lucca): The Theological Reasons for an Iconographic Choice
16.15 – 16.45 Discussion
Friday May 16
Session 5 Carthusian Images for Meditation and Devotion
9.40 – 10.00 Zuzana Bolerazká (Charles University). Hortus conclusus and the Carthusian Devotion
10.00 – 10.20 Harald Goder. The Carthusians as Manufacturers and Commissioners of Art Objects: Three Examples from Jülich, Dülmen and Cologne
10.20 – 10.50 Discussion
10.50 – 11.10 Coffee break
Session 6 Didactic and Meditative Images in the Charterhouse
11.10 – 11.30 Mitchell Merback (John Hopkins University). Christ-Wisdom Among the Carthusians
11.30 – 11.50 Sarah Borges (EHESS). Des roses et du sang: le Rosaire du MS Egerton 1821 de la British Library
11.50 – 12.20 Discussion
Lunch break
Session 7 Images et moniales cartusiennes
14.00 – 14.20 Sergi Sancho Fibla (Université Clermont Auvergne). Visual Culture at the Nunnery. Medieval and Early Modern Carthusian Nuns and their Devotional Images
14.20 – 14.40 Thomas Jérôme. Etre et s’imaginer : la question de l’identité des moniales chartreuses à travers les sources scripturaires, artistiques et archéologiques
14.40 – 15.00 Discussion
15.00 – 15.20 Coffee break
Visit to Alamire Foundation/Park Abbey
15.30 Departure by bus at KartHuis
16.00 – 17.00 Guided visit of the Alamire Foundation/Park Abbey
17.00 – 17.15 Short -break
Session 8 The Leuven Charterhouse: Short Sessions on History, Books, Liturgy and Art (these short sessions will be held at the Mariapoort of the Park Abbey)
17.15 – 17.30 Tom Gaens (UAntwerpen). The Foundation of the Charterhouse of Leuven and Its Relations with the University
17.30 – 17.45 Ingrid Falque (FNRS-UCLouvain). The Stained-Glass Windows of the Great Cloister of the Leuven Charterhouse: Memoria and Spiritual Edification
17.45 – 18.00 Pieter Mannaerts (Alamire Foundation). An Illuminated Carthusian Gradual from Leuven (1506)
18.00 – 18.15 Joseph Bernaer. A Lectern Bible Commissioned by the Carthusians
18.15 – 18.30 Tom Gaens (UAntwerpen). An Illustrated Meditation on the Lord’s Passion, Printed for the Carthusians of Leuven
18.30 – 19.00 Discussion
Saturday May 17
Session 9 Approches comparatives : images chez les chartreux et dans les ordres mendiants
9.30 – 9.50 Claire Bourguignon (Université Clermont Auvergne). Art, Culture and Devotion. A Comparative Approach Between the Carthusian and the Mendicant Orders (13th-16thCenturies)
9.50 – 10.10 Valentina Baradel & Davide Tramarin (Università degli Studi di Padova). Contrasting Worlds or Shared Visions? Carthusians, Dominicans, and the Use of Images in Late Medieval Devotional Practices
10.10 – 10.30 Anne-Laure Imbert (Université Paris I-Sorbonne). Les chartreux et sainte Catherine de Sienne
10.30 – 11.00 Discussion
11.00 – 11.20 Coffee break
Session 10 The Spiritual, the Curious, and the Profane in Carthusian Art
11.20 – 11.40 Clara Lieutaghi (EHESS). Trompe-l’œil en Chartreuse, un corpus à décrire ? Le cas du Chevalet du peintre (1686) à la Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon
11.40 – 12.00 Mija Oter Gorenčič (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts). Artworks as Witnesses of Carthusian Perfection, Devotion, (Self-)Representation and Pleasure
12.00 – 12.20 Discussion
12.20 – 12.45 Conclusions
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