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Disputatio and Dedication. Seventeenth-century thesis prints in the southern Low Countries
Author:
Gwendoline de Mûelenaere
BE
About Gwendoline
Gwendoline de Mûelenaere is a PhD student at the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). Her doctoral research focuses on thesis prints from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries produced in the southern Low Countries, analysing the connections between art, science and power. She takes a particular interest in the study of framing devices and allegorical language at play in thesis engravings, as well as the spectacular dimension of public defences.
Abstract
This article analyzes the tradition of thesis prints in universities and Jesuit colleges of the Spanish Low Countries. It focuses on the origins and the iconography of these engraved broadsides in order to highlight their intellectual, artistic and socio-political dimensions. Being a direct source about teaching in Louvain and Douai, this visual material can provide insight into the learning practices in the Southern Netherlands, in particular the tradition of public defences and the significance of courtly patronage and dedications in an academic environment. The investigated examples are part of the aesthetics developed in Antwerp in the first half of the seventeenth century.
How to Cite:
de Mûelenaere, G., 2015. Disputatio and Dedication. Seventeenth-century thesis prints in the southern Low Countries. De Zeventiende Eeuw. Cultuur in de Nederlanden in interdisciplinair perspectief, 31(2), pp.284–306. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/dze.10141
