Duke in Flanders: History of Art & Visual Culture
July 4 to August 14, 2010*
* See the Program Schedule page for a more detailed itinerary, including information regarding travel to and from the program site.
The Duke University Department of Art and Art History and the Global Education Office offer a six-week, two-course program in Ghent (Flanders) and Amsterdam (The Netherlands). This program introduces participants to a contextual study of Netherlandish art and visual culture from the Late Medieval to the Early Modern period. Professor Hans J. Van Miegroet, Chair of the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies directs the program.
The first two weeks of the program take place in Amsterdam, former international trading center of the Dutch Republic. The final four weeks of the program are based in Ghent, located in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium, which has strong cultural, historical, and linguistic ties with the present-day Netherlands. Ghent is about thirty miles from Brussels, capital of the European Union and two hours away from Paris via high-speed train (Thalis).
Amsterdam offers the ideal environment for a contextual study of Netherlandish visual culture of the Early Modern period in a creative and intellectually stimulating manner. The program concludes in Ghent, with its attractive medieval to post-modern scenery and its central location to major cities such as Paris, Lille, Brussels, Antwerp, and Cologne. It is also a dynamic university town with a wide range of diverse cultural activities. Applicants may wish to consult the following comprehensive list of Dutch and Flemish art on the CODART web site.
For more information about the program, please also see the program website.
