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Acquisitions
  • Please find an overview of the library acquisitions of March and April 2017 here (pdf). All titles are available for consultation in our reading room.
DOCUMENTATION AND ARCHIVES
Progress report 
Recently, the cataloguing of the archive of Marguerite Casteels, which began in 2016, was completed. It is now fully inventoried in our online archival database. In addition, a page with Casteels’ biographical details is now available.
  • The archive consists of several manuscripts and an extensive series of corresponding albums of collected photographs related to 16th- and 17th-century Flemish sculpture. Casteels collected this documentation throughout the course of a lifetime of research.
  • The archive is classified by artist with particular emphasis on the Van Mildert, Van Ommen, Quellinus and Verbruggen family workshops, but it includes other lesser-known sculptors as well.  
  • The manuscripts uniformly consist of a biography of the artist followed by an overview of the artist's most important works, indeces and an often voluminous compilation of transcriptions of relevant archival documents dating from the sixteenth century onward. The latter would be especially useful for other scholars of Flemish sculpture.
  • The vast photographic collection, containing more than 2.000 items, was transmitted to archival quality boxes that simultaneously protect the photographs in the best possible way while still being easily accessible to researchers. All photographs are inventoried and labeled individually.
This rich archive of a researcher who devoted many years to the study of Renaissance and Baroque sculpture and the collection of the Gaasbeek Castle, still holds many untouched and unpublished data. You may consult this collection in our reading room after placing a request through the collection catalogue. For more information, please visit our website.
PROJECT COLLECTION LUDWIG BURCHARD
Progress report
As part of the second project on Ludwig Burchard (2016-2017) the Rubensdocumentation of the Rubenianum is receiving a makeover.
  • The documentation on Rubens consists of over 6.000 unique folders, all of which contain original material accumulated by Ludwig Burchard. Some folders contain only a few handwritten notes by his hand, others are stuffed to the brink with his notes, photographs, excerpts from literature and even complete journals.
  • Until now, Burchard’s original files were interspersed with more recent documents. The Rubenianum has chosen to preserve the Burchard files in separate acid-free folders. These are kept within the original folders, so all the information remains easily accessible. The folders are simultaneously being recorded in our online archival database.
This work has been completed for the documentation on the subjects that have already been published in the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard and will continue when new parts in the series are published. An overview can be found here.

From February through April, the Rubenianum was able to rely on the excellent skill set of intern Jill Peeters (University of Leuven). During her internship, Jill performed a multitude of tasks, including assisting with artwork inquiries, registering in the RKDImages-database and the classification of artwork documentation. Jill especially put her skills to good use assisting with the Rubensdocumentation; she was responsible for processing two themes: Landscapes (CRLB XVIII, 1) and The Ceiling Decoration of the Banqueting Hall (CRLB XV), amounting to a total of about 240 documentation folders.
Digitizing the corpus rubenianum
Progress report
The digitization process has been completed for another volume of the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard:
READING ROOM
Closing days
Please note that the Rubenianum will be closed on the following days:
  • 5 June: Whit Monday
  • 10 July: day of obligation
  • 11 July: Day of the Flemish Community
  • 21 July: National holiday
  • 14 August: day of obligation
  • 15 August: Ascension Day
 For more information, please visit our website or contact us via e-mail.

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