Imaging Utopia: : new perspectives on Northern Renaissance art : papers presented at the twentieth symposium for the study of underdrawing and technology in painting held in Mechelen and Leuven, 11-13 January 2017

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The Nymph of the grotto, Silence and Genius loci / Barbara Baert -- Visualizing Caliban's New World kin / Larry Silver -- The Golden Age as an imaginary and imaginable Utopia / Maria Aresin -- Reviving the locus amoenus: Jan van de Velde II and Batavian antiquarianism during the Twelve Years' Truce (1609-1621) / Robert Fucci -- Democritus: the laughing philosopher / Maximilian P.J. Martens -- Social networks, wooden connections: two portraits by Quentin Massys / Malve Anna Falk -- Visualizing the divine: new insights into Jean Bellegambe's working methods / Anna Koopstra -- Indians and fools versus glorious prince-bishops: the palace of Liège as a utopian construction with dystopian references / Stefaan Grieten and Krista De Jonge -- Civitas Lovaniensis: an integrated analysis of the oldest city portrait of Leuven and the woodcuts of monogrammist AP / Jeroen Luyckx -- The city between piety and vanity: city portraits in religious iconography in early moder Netherlandish painting / Jochen Suy -- Alabaster and gold: material-technical study of the exceptional altarpiece of Boussu / Judy De Roy -- Part of the picture: the underdrawing and its use in the painting-technique of Hans Holbein the Elder / Stephanie Dietz -- The function of colorless powdered glass as an additive to fifteenth and sixteenth century oil paints / Indra Kneepkens -- The painted panels of the early sisteenth century Mechelen enclosed gardens: art technical examination with the photometric stereo: white light and multispectral microdomes / Hendrik Hameeuw, Lieve Watteeuw, Bruno Vandermeulen, Marc Proesmans -- The enclosed gardens of Mechelen: reveale from beneath the dust / Willemien Anaf, Marjolijn Debulpaep, Marina Van Bos.