The aim of the Summer Course each year is to bring to Flanders a select and highly qualified group of no more than 18 researchers (PhD or MA level) at the start of their academic career and offer them an intensive 11-day programme of lectures by experts, seminars, and visits. The theme varies each year, with a focus on a different period of art history each time.
Eight editions
The first edition of the Summer Course took place in 2015, focused on the age of van Eyck in context. Subsequent editions have concentrated on Rubens and the seventeenth century and medieval sculpture, the Fin de Siècle (late 19th and early 20th century), and Bruegel and his era. The sixth edition, which was postponed twice due to the COVID-19 crisis, focused again on the age of Van Eyck. In 2023, we organised the Summer Course on The Age of Rubens. In 2024 the central theme of the Summer Course was Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture.
