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THE LANDSCAPE SEMINAR is a collective seminar held by Jeroen Laureyns and Patrick Verlaak. It is based on their personal research subject. That will be expressed during the course in two different voices. Art historian and art critic Jeroen Laureyns will talk about the representation of the Flemish landscape in visual arts. Artist and lecturer Patrick Verlaak will analyse the depiction of the Italian landscape and its connection with the motif of the Annunciation.

A. 'Fucking Flanders', Jeroen Laureyns

0. The country of the dead rivers: lamentatio.

1. The last landscape: 'Fucking Flanders' by Thierry De Cordier.

2. Non-lieu Flanders: Hans Op de Beeck

3. The unreachable landscape: Jan Kempenaers and the delayed appreciation.

4. The end of the lyrical landscape in Flanders: Roger Raveel, Raoul De Keyser, Antoon De Clerck.

5. The ugliest country in the world/the most beautiful country in the world: Renaat Braem, Walter De Mulder, Georges Charlier.

6. Disaster area Flanders: the lyrical TV landscapes by Jef Cornelis.

7. The sorrow of Flanders: Michiel Hendryckx, Stephan Vanfleteren, Jan De Maesschalck.

B. The announcement of a landscape, Patrick Verlaak.

1. Introduction and definition of the landscape

2. The Spiritual Landscape

3. Reading a Spiritual Landscape

4. From a perspective of the city & Fra Angelico

5. The territory of the Florentine Republic

6. The annunciations of Piero della Francesca

7. A Romanesque Church as a Pinhole Camera

8. The Sacred Forests & the Enclosed Garden

9. The discovery of the horizon & Da Vinci

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Powerpoint presentation

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English

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In every course both professors will be present. They will both teach one hour every week about their research.