Abbie Vandivere
Paintings Conservation, Restoration, Technical Examination
Conservering, Restauratie, Materiaaltechnisch Onderzoek van Schilderijen
From the Ground Up

2023

•   Who’s that Girl?, NN Kunstfestival, Mauritshuis, 08/10/2023

•  Meisje Masterclass, Museumnacht, Mauritshuis , 07/10/2023

•  with K. Harada, ‘Mandijn’s Monsters: shining a light on the techniques and motifs of a Bosch follower,’ Conference: Jheronimus Bosch: His workshop and his followers, Jheronimus Bosch Art Center, ’s Hertogenbosch, 12/05/2023

• ‘The Girl in the Spotlight,’ online lecture and Q&A for the Center for Netherlandish Art: Student Session, 21/04/2023

• Meisje Masterclass, Maurits& evening to celebrate the return of Girl with a Pearl Earring to the Mauritshuis, 01/04/2023

• ‘The Girl in 1665: The original appearance of Girl with a Pearl Earring,’ International Vermeer symposium, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam , 28/03/2023

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2022

•   Poster presentation with M. van Veldhuizen, R. Wiersma, ‘Animating the artist’s gesture: Using computational techniques to visualise making processes,’ 9th Interim Meeting of the ICOM-CC Art Technological Source Research Working Group, Paris, (forthcoming), 25/11/2022

•   with A. van Loon et al., ‘What makes a Vermeer a Vermeer?’; with M. Albrecht et al. ‘How to paint a bouquet MA-XRF analysis of 17th-century Netherlandish flower still-lives from the Mauritshuis’ MA-XRF scanning in Conservation, Art and Archaeology, 3rd conference on the use of XRF imaging in conservation, art and archaeology, Delft, 26-27/09/2022

•   ‘The Pigment Reference Set: A resource for non-invasive imaging and analysis’; with J. Schilder, ‘Bear with us… a Boar-ing presentation about Paulus Potter and the Stier,’ Picture Meeting, RCE, Amersfoort , 16/09/2022

•   with A. van Loon: ‘Pigment Reference Set: Resource for technical art history (MA) and scientific analysis,’ Inaugural Conservation Science Education Online (CSEO) conference, 19/05/202                

•  with Jan Bustin, ‘A matter of manner? Material aspects of style, and reconstructions as a research tool,’ ‘Alla Maniera’: Technical art history and the meaning of style in 15th to 17th century painting, Symposium XXII for the study of underdrawing and technology in painting, 28/03/2022

•  The Girl in the Spotlight: Results from the technical examination:

• Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, 05/11/2022

•  Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain, 04/02/2022

•  Online lecture for Harvard University, Freshman Seminar: ‘Changing perspectives: The science of optics in the visual arts’ , 17/03/2022    

 

2021

•  Video about the restoration of a painting attributed to the Master of the Brandon Portrait, in exhibition Facelifts & Makeovers, Mauritshuis, 07/10/2021–09/01/2022

•  ‘Historical canvas supports for painting: materials and techniques,’ Online master class The Dutch Method Unfolded, Getty Foundation / University of Amsterdam, 04/03/2021. Link

•  The Girl in the Spotlight: Results from the technical examination:

   -  Online lectures for: Winterthur / University of Delaware program in art conservation, National Gallery of Denmark (Statens Museum voor Kunst), Columbia University Alumni Association

 

2020
•  The Girl in the Spotlight (EN) / Het Meisje in de Schijwerper (NL):

   -  Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art (INHA), Paris, France (EN), 09/01/2020

   -  Online lectures for: University of Delaware, Princeton Academy of Art, University of Syracuse, Queens University, Friends of the Mauritshuis

   -  Vlogs for the Mauritshuis: Changes, Steps of Vermeer, Pigments, Visual Effects
 

2019

•  'Comparing pictorial effects in selected paintings by Rogier van der Weyden,’ and with C. Pottasch: ‘Many hands make light work: Evidence of workshop practice in the Mauritshuis Lamentation,’ Symposium Rogier van der Weyden & the Mauritshuis Lamentation, RKD, The Hague,  22/11/2019

• ‘Rembrandt paintings at the Mauritshuis: Conservation and format changes,’ Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.18/09/2019​

•   'Technical aspects of paintings by Hieronymus Bosch,’ Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., 17/09/2019

•   The Girl in the Spotlight (EN) / Het Meisje in de Schijwerper (NL):

   -  NICAS project day, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (EN), 09/12/2019

​   -  Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. (EN), 19/09/2019

   -  Van 't Hoff Laboratory for Physical and Colloid Chemistry, Utrecht University (EN), 02/07/2019  ​

​   -   Keynote lecture, NICAS Match Day, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (EN), 20/05/2019

   -   Symposium ‘Art & Technology’, KNUS, Radboud University, Nijmegen (EN) , 14/05/2019

   -   Opening lecture, TECHNART conference, Bruges, Belgium (EN), 07/05/2019

​   -   Courtauld Institute of Art, London, U.K. (EN), 25/02/2019

   -   ‘Andere kijkje op Vermeer’, Delfia Batavorum, Prinsenhof Delft (NL), 20/02/2019​

   -   Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden (EN), 28/01/2019

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2018

•  The Girl in the Spotlight (EN) / Het Meisje in de Schijwerper (NL)

   - Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge, UK (EN) , 14/11/2018

   - Keynote lecture, Nederlands Octrooibureau (Patent Office), Societeit de Witte, The Hague (NL), 13/11/2018

   - NN Group, The Hague (EN and NL) , 01/10/2018

   - ArtTube, Lowlands Music Festival, Biddinghuizen (NL), 17-18/08/2018

   - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, U.S.A. (EN) , 02/08/2018

   - Summer Technical Institute in Technical Art History, Yale University, New Haven, U.S.A. (EN). Link, 01/08/2018

   - Public lectures (EN and NL) ,  09/03/2018

   - Technical Art History Colloquium (EN), 08/03/2018

   - American Womens Club / Princeton University Alumni (EN), 08/03/2018
   - Vereniging Rembrandt (NL), 01/03/2018

 

2017 and earlier

•  with J. Ribits, ‘Gilded Goddess: The technical examination of an anonymous Italian gilt leather painting at the Mauritshuis,’ ICOM-CC 18th Triennial Conference, Copenhagen, 06/09/2017
•  ‘Beneath the Surface,’ Symposium for book presentation of Genre Paintings in the Mauritshuis, Mauritshuis, The Hague, 18/12/2016

•  Co-organizer of monthly Technical Art History Colloquium. Speaker at 6th colloquium: ‘Genre Paintings: Beneath the Surface,’ Mauritshuis, The Hague,  13/10/2016                                                      

•  ‘A translucent flesh-coloured primuersel: Intermediate layers and visible underdrawing in Jheronimus Bosch’s paintings,’ Jheronimus Bosch: His Life and His Work, Jheronimus Bosch Art Center, ’s Hertogenbosch, 16/04/2016

•  ‘Gilded Goddess: The technical examination of a gilt leather painting from the Mauritshuis,’ Symposium Improved conservation strategies for gilt leather, SRAL and Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, 31/03/2016

•  ‘Tempera en olieverftechnieken’ and ‘De opbouw van schilderijen op paneel en op doek,’ Lectures for BA course Kunsttechnieken en Visuele Analyse II, University of Amsterdam, 2014–2021  

•  ‘Surface effects in the Leiden and Amsterdam painters' workshops,’ Colloquium Cornelisz Engebrechtsz in Context, Lakenhal, Leiden, 24/04/2014

•  ‘De restauratie en schildertechniek van vier schilderijen van Kenau,’

•  lecture in Dutch at the City Hall, Haarlem, 28/05/2014

•  five public lectures in Dutch for the ‘Neighbours evening’ and ‘Museumweekend’, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, 04-05/04/2014     

•  ‘From the ground up,’

   -  lecture for Conservation Masters students, IAKH, University of Oslo, Norway, 20/08/2014

   -  lecture for Research group in ancient and medieval history at IAKH, University of Oslo, Norway ,  28/08/2013      

•  ‘Surface Effects in Paintings by Jan van Eyck and his predecessors,’ Study Day for The Road to Van Eyck, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, 29/10/2012                                                                                        

• ‘Surface effects in paintings by Jan van Eyck,’ Van Eyck Studies Colloquium, Symposium XVIII for the study of underdrawing and technology in painting, Brussels, Belgium, 19/09/2012                          

• ‘From the ground up: Research into early Netherlandish paintings for the Impact of Oil project,’ Gerry Hedley Student Symposium, London, U.K.,  12/06/2012                                                                       

• ‘Introduction to the Impact of Oil’, ‘In search of Van Mander’s primuersel,’ ‘Changing draperies: recipes and practice’, and ‘Painting techniques of the sixteenth-century Leiden School’

  -  for the course ‘Materiële Kunstgeschiedenis’ at the University of Amsterdam, 16/04/2012

   -  Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge, U.K., 11/01/2012
• ‘From the ground up,’ Progress report for the Onderzoekschool Kunstgeschiedenis, University of Utrecht, 24/02/2012

• ‘In search of Van Mander’s primuersel: Coloured intermediate layers in early 16th-century Netherlandish paintings,’ ICOM-CC 16th Triennial Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 20/09/2011                        

•  ‘Purpura and proto-changeant: the earliest representations of shot silk fabrics’, presentation with Mark Clarke at ICOM-CC 16th Triennial Conference, Lisbon, Portugal,  20/09/2011                             
•  ‘Making historically appropriate materials from scratch,’ ‘Cornelis Engebrechtsz’s Christ in the House of Martha and Mary’, ‘Techniques of the 16th-century Leiden school painters,’ ‘Changing draperies: recipes and practice,’ and practical demonstrations as part of the course “The Impact of Oil: Historical painting techniques in early Netherlandish paintings,” Amsterdam Maastricht Summer University, 23/08/2011–01/09/2011.

•  ‘De restauratie in schildertechniek van De Inneming van Damiate van C.C. van Wieringen’, two public lectures in Dutch about a completed treatment, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands, 17/12/2010, 14/01/2011

•  ‘Changing draperies: recipes and practice’, presented with Mark Clarke at the conference Vision & Material: Interaction between art and science in Jan van Eyck’s time, Vlaams Academisch Centrum, Brussels, Belgium, 26/11/2010

•  ‘Art Conservation’, and ‘The restoration and technique of The Capture of Damiate’: two lectures and a museum tour for the American Women’s Club, The Hague, The Netherlands, 14/10/2010, 13/01/2011

•  ‘Restauratie halverwege: De Inneming van Damiate van C.C. van Wieringen’, four public lectures in Dutch about a treatment in progress, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands. Link, 26-27/01/2010     

•  ‘Painting Techniques of the Sixteenth-century Leiden School: The Modelling of Fabrics and Draperies’, presented at the Picture Meeting, Instituut Collectie Nederland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 15/01/2009, and at the Impact of Oil Symposium, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands , 26/02/2009

•    ‘Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen’s Cardinal Erard de la Marck and The Holy Family: A Diptych Reunited?’,
  -  at the opening of the exhibition Erard de la Marck en de Heilige Familie: Twee panelen of een tweeluik? at the Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 27/01/2008                                        
  -  Diptychs Symposium in connection with the exhibition Vlaamse Primitieven: De mooiste tweeluiken, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium,  26/04/2007                                                          

•    A series of hour-long lectures on the subject of Art Restoration, presented to Canadian schoolchildren aged 13-18. Demonstrated the egg tempera painting technique to groups of students aged 16-18, 10/2007    

•   ‘The Effect of Selected Materials Used for Surface Cleaning Unvarnished Paintings’, presented at the Gerry Hedley Student Symposium, London, UK , 06/2006