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Research Report at the 76th General Assembly of The Japan Art History Society

27. May 2023, 15:30-16:10
Ito Campus, Kyushu University
Research Report:
Ayu Okumura (Doctoral Student, Kyoto University), “A Reflection on the Resurrection of Christ in the Rear View in the St. Thomas Altar by “Meister Francke””

Research Reports at the Joint Art History Seminar Vienna University – Kyoto University

Joint Art History Seminar Kyoto University – Vienna University 10th – 11th March 2022
10.-11. March, 2022
Online via Zoom
Research Reports:
Miyuki Yamagata (Doctoral Student), “Hans Memling’s Diptych of Jan du Cellier: The Crossbow Guild of St George in a Chivalric Context”
Miki Kuramochi (Lecturer of Kobe Gakuin University/Part-Time Lecturer of Kyoto University), “Drawings as Reading Notes: A Case Study of Artists’ Erudition in Seventeenth Century Italy”
Yuma Kubo (Research Fellow of Japan Society for Promotion of Science), “Titian and Venetian Artists in Counter Reformation Bavaria”
Chihiro Tennojiya (Doctoral Student), “The Hammock (The Dream): Gustave Courbet’s Attempt in Early Days”
Joint Art History Seminar Kyoto University – Vienna University Flyer

Research Report at The Japan Art History Society Western Division Meeting

17. July 2021, 13:30－
Online via Zoom, prior reservations required
Research Report:
Miyuki Yamagata (Doctoral Student, Kyoto University), “Hans Memling’s Diptych of Jan du Cellier: The Crossbow Guild of St George in a Chivalric Context”

Research Reports at the Joint Art History Seminar Vienna University – Kyoto University

18.-19. January, 2021
Online via Zoom
Research Reports:
Miyuki Yamagata (Doctoral Student), “Strategic Collaboration between Gerard David and the Bening Workshop: Adaptations of Hugo van der Goes’ Seated Female Saint in Manuscript Illuminations and Panel Paintings”
Miki Kuramochi (Lecturer of Kobe Gakuin University/Part-Time Lecturer of Kyoto University), “Poussin’s Drawings in the Collection of the Albertina: Technique, Purpose, Attribution”
Chihiro Tennojiya (Doctoral Student), “An Analysis of Courbet’s Charcoal Drawings: In Search of Painter’s Project”
Chinami Fukao (Doctoral Student), “Camille Pissarro’s Turpitudes Sociales: Some Considerations of His Artistic and Political Thoughts in the Drawing Album”
Joint Art History Seminar Kyoto University – Vienna University flyer

Research Report at the Société franco-japonaise d’Art et d’Archéologie, 158，159e réunion

19. December 2020, 13:00-
Online via Zoom, prior reservations required
Research Report:
Chihiro Tennojiya (Doctoral Student, Kyoto University), “An Analysis of Female Representation in Courbet’s Early Works in Terms of Painter’s Idealism ”

Research Report at The Japan Art History Society Western Division Meeting

19. September 2020, 13:30－
Online via Zoom, prior reservations required
Research Report:
Jun Takeno (Master Course Student, Kyoto University), “On František Kupka’s “Planes by Colors, Winter Reminiscences” in Terms of the Painter’s Formative Approaches by the Early 1920s”

Research Report at The Japan Art History Society Western Division Meeting

18. July 2020, 12:30－
Online via Zoom, prior reservations required
Research Report:
Chihiro Tennojiya (Doctoral Student, Kyoto University), “A Reconsideration of Courbet’s Young Ladies of the Banks of the Seine, with Reference to the Painter’s Notion of Gender”

Research Report at The Second Joint Workshop Kyoto University―University of Vienna

24.-25. October, 2019
Kyoto University
Keynote Lecture:
Kayo Hirakawa (Professor), “Longing for Eternity: Oil Painting on Copper in a Pre-Modern Global Context” (24. October, 11:15-11:45)
Research Reports at the Parallel Session Art History “Art Centers in the Global World: Toward New Perspectives on Art History”:
Ikuyo Ejiri (Part-Time Lecturer), “Problems surrounding Botticelli’s Del Lama Altarpiece” (24. October, 13:00-14:00)
Miyuki Yamagata (Doctoral Student), “Hans Memling’s St. Ursula Shrine: Manifestation of Sanctity and Salvation through Narrative Strategy” (24. October. 14:00-15:00)
Miki Kuramochi, (Lecturer of Kobe Gakuin University/Part-Time Lecturer of Kyoto University) “A Study on Collaborative Works between Independent Artists in Italy in the Seventeenth-Century” (25. October, 9:00-10:00)

Research Report at the VI. Bodensee-Gespräche über Kunst/Bodoman Art Talks

11. July,2019, 9:30-9:45
Reinwaldhaus, Ludwigshafen-Bodman, Germany,
Research Report:
Kayo Hirakawa(Professor), “Spranger Copies Fra Angelico on the Copperplate: The Last Judgement for Pius V”

Research Report at the Kyoto University International Symposium: Does Nature Think?

7. June, 2019, 15:00-15:40
UNESCO, Paris
Research Report:
Kayo Hirakawa (Professor), “Nature and Meditation: Landscape Painting in Early Modern Europe”

Research Report at the Symposium of Young Researchers: Impressionnisme Aujourd’hui

22. June 2019, 13:30-18:00
Lecture Hall K-101, Building East-No.3, Matsugasaki East Campus, Kyoto Institute of Technology
Research Report:
Chinami Fukao (Doctoral Student, Kyoto University/Part-Time Curator of the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura and Hayama), “Une jeune fille se trempant les pieds dans une rivière de Camille Pissarro”(13:30-14:20)

Research Report at the 72nd General Assembly of The Japan Art History Society

19. May 2019, 10:00-10:40
Memorial Hall, 60th Anniversary Memorial Building, Matsugasaki East Campus, Kyoto Institute of Technology
Research Report:
Miyuki Yamagata (Doctoral Student, Kyoto University), “Hans Memling’s St. Ursula Shrine: Manifestation of Sanctity and Salvation through Narrative Strategy”

Research Report at The Japan Art History Society Western Division Meeting

17. November 2018, 13:30－
Large Lecture Hall, 2nd Floor, Main Bldg. (Graduate School of Letters), Toyonaka Campus, Osaka University
Research Report:
Ikuyo Ejiri (Doctoral Student, Kyoto University), “A Reconsideration of Botticelli’s Del Lama Altarpiece”

Research Report at The 11th Next Generation Global Workshop: Self, Others, and Community

10.－11. November 2018
Gradate School of Letters, Kyoto University
Ikuyo Ejiri (Doctoral Student, Kyoto University), “Messages from Portraits in the Del Lama Altarpiece of Botticelli” (Session 1C, Talk 2, 10. November, 11:00-11:20)
Miki Kuramochi (Postdoc, Kyoto University/Part-time lecturer, Kyoto Sangyo University), “Social Bonds Nourished Through Paintings and Books: A Case Study of Artistic Circles in Seventeenth-Century Rome” (Session 1C, Talk 3, 10. November, 11:20-11:40)
Anri Sasaki (Master Course Student, Kyoto University), “Self-Representations in the Community of French Romantics Artists” (Session 4A, Talk 2, 11. November, 9:50-10:10)
Chihiro Ten’nojiya (Master Course Student, Kyoto University), “The Distance between the Self and Others in Courbet’s Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine” (Session 4A, Talk 3, 11. November, 10:10-10:30)

Research Report at The Japan Art History Society Western Division Meeting

15. September 2018, 13:30－
No. 3 Lecture Hall, Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University
Research Report:
Miki Kuramochi (Postdoc, Kyoto University/Part-time lecturer, Kyoto Sangyo University), “The Massacre of the Innocents by Poussin (Musée Condé, Chantilly): A Consideration of Its Production Based on Aretino’s Texts”

Research Report at XVIe école de printemps d’histoire de l’art

22. June 2018, 9:00－9:40
Bâtiment Max Weber, Université Paris Nanterre, France
Research Report:
Chinami Fukao (Doctoral Student, Kyoto University), “Camille Pissarro et l’anarchisme: «Acte d’image» dans La Cueillette des pommes”

Research Report at the 71st General Assembly of The Japan Art History Society

19. May 2018, 10:00-10:30
Lecture Room 1, Multidisciplinary Research Building, Kawauchi-minami Campus, Tohoku University
Research Report:
Chinami Fukao (Doctoral Student, Kyoto University), “Camille Pissarro’s Apple-Picking: Utopianism in 19th Century France”

Kyoto Art History Lecture: Bernini and the Art of Europe in the Seventeenth Century

9. February, 2018, 16:00–17:30
Venue: Lecture Room 4, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Yoshida Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, 606-8501 Kyoto, Japan
16:00–16:45 Lecture
Prof. Sebastian Schütze (University of Vienna)
Bernini’s Drawings as Gifts: Rituals between Friendship, Courtly Politics and International Diplomacy
16:45–17:00 Coffee Break
17:00–17:30 Discussion
Contact email: Kayo Hirakawa（hirakawa.kayo.6z＊kyoto-u.ac.jp）（Change ＊to @.）
Admission to the lecture is free, and no booking is required.
See the flyer.

Lecture at the Exhibition: Old Masters from the State Hermitage Museum

25. November, 2017, 14:00－15:30
Lecture Hall, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe
Lecture:
Kayo Hirakawa (Professor, Kyoto University), “Netherlandish Baroque Painting: The Emergence of Specialists and the Golden Age of the Painting”

Research Report at Associazione di Studi Italiani del Kansai, L’incontro di luglio​​

30. July, 2017, 15:00-
Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto Univesity
Research Report:
Miki Kuramochi (PhD-Candidate, Kyoto University), “Roma 1630: Introduzione per lo studio sui quadri di storia di Nicolas Poussin e dei suoi contemporanei a Roma”

Research Report at CONTENT—FORM: International Conference of Students in Doctoral Programmes

23. March, 2017, 9:20–9:40
Catholic Theological Faculty of Charles University, Prague
Research Report:
Miki Kuramochi (PhD-Candidate, Kyoto University), “How did Nicolas Poussin represent The Apparition of the Virgin to Saint James the Great?: A Comparison with Contemporary Altarpieces in Rome”

Lecture at the exhibition: SOUKOU—Japan Way to Beauty and Preserve Cultural Heritage

11. February, 2017, 13:00－15:30
Lecture Hall, The Kyoto University Museum, Kyoto
Lecture:
Kayo Hirakawa (Associate Professor, Kyoto University), “Pre-modern European Painting and the Restoration”

Kyoto Art History Colloquium: Appreciating the Traces of an Artist’s Hand

25. September, 2016, 10:00-18:20
Venue: Conference Room, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Yoshida Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, 606-8501 Kyoto, Japan (Faculty of Letters Main Building [8] in the campus map）
Contact email: Kayo Hirakawa (hirakawa.kayo.6z＊kyoto-u.ac.jp)(Change＊to @.)
Admission to the colloquium is free and no booking is required.
Program
10:00 Welcome
10:10 Kayo Hirakawa (Kyoto University), “Albrecht Dürer’s The Desperate Man: Fleeting Images and the Creating Hand”
10:50 Toshiharu Nakamura (Kyoto University), “Rubens and the History of the Oil Sketch”
11:30 Nils Büttner (Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design), “Rubens’s Hands: On Copies and Their Reception”
12:10 Lunch
13:30 Michiko Fukaya (Kyoto City University of Arts), “An Examination of the Connection between Rough Brushstrokes and Vulgar Subjects in Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Painting”
14:10 Gregor J. M. Weber (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam), “34 Paintings by Rembrandt in Kassel: The Question of Authenticity in an Eighteenth-Century Collection”
14:50 Tomoko Yoshida (Kyoto Notre Dame University), “Genius, Inspiration and Hands: Pre-Romantic Image of Artists in Eighteenth-Century French Painting”
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Nicole R. Myers (Dallas Museum of Art), “Originality, Spontaneity, and Sincerity: The Rise of the Sketch in France at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century”
16:40 Mark Evans (Victoria and Albert Museum), “‘Full of vigour, & nature, fresh, original, warm from observation of nature, hasty, unpolished, untouched’: The Oil Sketches of John Constable”
17:20 Takanori Nagai (Kyoto Institute of Technology), “How Paul Cézanne Rejected the ‘fini’ Concept”
18:00 Conclusions
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Lecture at the exhibition: Sacred and Secular: Israhel van Meckenem & Early German Engraving

6. August, 2016, 14:00－15:30
Lecture Hall, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Lecture:
Kayo Hirakawa (Associate Professor, Kyoto University), “The Fascination of Early German Prints”

Research Report at The Japan Art History Society Western Division Meeting

16. July, 2016, 13:30－
Lecture Room 4, Campus Plaza, Kyoto
Research Report:
Akira Shimouchi (Doctoral Student, Kyoto University), “Egon Schiele’s Seated Male Nude (Self-Portrait): A Reconsideration of its Relationship to Secessionist Tradition”

Research Report at the International Symposium: Velazquez and the Baroque Painting

4. March, 2016, 13:00-18:00
Ono Memorial Hall, Waseda University, Tokyo
Research Report:
Toshiharu Nakamura (Professor, Kyoto University), “The Court of Philip IV and Rubens: Toward an Interpretation of Las Meninas” (14:00-14:30)

Research Report at the Symposium of Japan Association for Studies of Art in German Speaking Countries: Print as a Place for Creation, Communication and Memory

5. December, 2015, 10:00-18:00
2302 Room, Building 2, Shirokane Campus, Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo
Research Report:
Kayo Hirakawa (Associate Professor, Kyoto University), “Challenge for Virtuosos: German Prints and Goldsmith Works in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries” (12:05-12:30)

Lecture at the Meeting of Kyoto Society of Philosophers

3. November, 2015, 13:30-
International Assembly Room, Clock Tower Centennial Hall, Kyoto University, Kyoto
Lecture:
Kayo Hirakawa (Associate Professor, Kyoto University), “Rarity, Curiosity and Novelty: Aspects of the Diversification of Painting Forms in Northern Mannerism” (13:30-15:00)

Lecture at KUASU The 8th Next Generation Global Workshop: Demographic Challenges in the Era of Global Ageing and Migration

1. August, 2015, 11:10－11:50
Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Yoshida Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, 606-8501 Kyoto, Japan
Lecture:
Toshiharu Nakamura (Professor, Kyoto University), “Virtues and Vices of Old People in Netherlandish Seventeenth-Century Genre Paintings”

Research Report at the Société franco-japonaise d’Art et d’Archéologie, 135e réunion: 350e anniversaire de la mort de Nicolas Poussin; la peinture religieuse et le paysage

25. July, 2015, 14:00－
Lecture Room 2, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University
Research Report:
Miki Kuramochi (PhD-Candidate, Kyoto University), “Le Martyre de Saint Erasme de Poussin: un défi du peintre français Poussin dans la Basilique Saint-Pierre”

Lecture at the exhibition: Louvre Museum; Genre Painting－Scenes from Daily Life

25. July, 2015, 14:00－15:30
Lecture Hall, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto
Lecture:
Kayo Hirakawa (Associate Professor, Kyoto University), “Northern Renaissance Master Quentin Massys and the Depiction of the Daily Life: Moneychanger and his Wife”

Research Report at the 10th Annual Symposium of Japanese Association for Art Studies: The Poetics of the Ordinary Life

13. June, 2015, 13:00－
Lecture Hall, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Research Report:
Toshiharu Nakamura (Professor, Kyoto University), “Old women and men in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Painting”

Workshop: Historical Studies on Appreciating the Traces of an Artist’s Hand

Sunday, 21. December, 2014, 13:00－16:00
Venue: Seminar Room 3, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University (Faculty of Letters Main Building [8] in the campus map)
Research Report:
Tomoko Yoshida(Lecturer, Kyoto Notre Dame University), “On Fragonard’s Fantasy Figure and Orlando Furioso”
Takanori Nagai(Associate Professor, Kyoto Institute of Technology), “The Meaning of ‘fini’ in the Academic Paintings during the French Third Republic”
Kensuke Nedachi(Professor, Kyoto University), “The Engagement of Master Sculptors in Making Buddhist Statues: Analysis of Inscriptions on Buddhist Statues during the Retired Emperors’ Era”

Research Report at The Japan Art History Society Western Division Meeting

15. November, 2014, 13:30－
Lecture Hall, Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka
Research Report:
Chinami Fukao (Doctoral Student, Kyoto University), “The Landscape Paintings of Pissarro’s Later Years: A Case Study on ‘The Tuileries Gardens and Pavillon de Flore, Hoar-Frost'”

Kyoto Art History Colloquium: Sacred and Profane in Early Modern Art

4. October, 2014, 13:00-19:00
Venue: Conference Room, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Yoshida Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, 606-8501 Kyoto, Japan (Faculty of Letters Main Building [8] in the campus map）
Contact email: Kayo Hirakawa (kahirakawa＊bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp)(Change＊to @.)
Admission to the colloquium is free and no booking is required.
Program
13:00 Welcome
Chair: Toshiharu Nakamura
13:10 Kayo Hirakawa (Kyoto University), “The Man of Sorrows in the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe: A Reconsideration of Dürer’s Gold-Ground Panel Painting”
13:50 Ayumi Yasui (Kanazawa College of Art), “Where Has Paris Gone? Sebald Beham’s Fountain of Youth Reconsidered”
14:30 Andreas Tacke (Trier University), “The Winner: Lucas Cranach and the Art Market of the Reformation Period”
15:10 Coffee Break
Chair: Michiko Fukaya
15:40 Toshiharu Nakamura (Kyoto University), “Making of Frans Hals’s Painterly Style: An Examination of the Influence of Antwerp Painters”
16:20 Yoriko Kobayashi-Sato (Mejiro University), “De Hollandse Tuin and de Nederlandse Maagd: An Attempt of Interpreting Some Dutch Genre Paintings”
17:00 Break
Chair: Kayo Hirakawa
17:20 Michiko Fukaya (Kyoto City University of Arts), “Dutch Painters in Roman Churches in the Early Seventeenth Century”
18:00 Mia Mochizuki (New York University Abu Dhabi/Institute of Fine Arts, New York), “Sacred Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction: The Salus Populi Romani Madonna in the World”
18:40 Conclusions
See the program and the abstracts.

Research Report at the Kyoto University and National Taiwan University Symposium 2014

1. September, 2014, 15:45－ (Parallel Session 1: Humanities)
Conference Room, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Yoshida Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, 606-8501 Kyoto, Japan
Research Report:
Toshiharu Nakamura (Professor, Kyoto University), “Notes on the Interpretation of Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting”

Research Report at the Workshop: Aspekte des Erzählens in Kunst und Kunstgeschichte

11. July, 2014, 9:30－
Reinwaldhaus in Ludwigshafen-Bodman, Germany
Research Report:
Kayo Hirakawa (Associate Professor, Kyoto University), “Die Erfindung der Ölgemälde auf der Kupferplatte im sechzehnten Jahrhundert”

Research Report at the International Spring Academy in Tokyo, June 9.-13. 2014/ École Internationale de Printemps à Tokyo, du 9 au 13 juin 2014

9. June 2014, 11:00－
Lecture Room 4, Komaba Communications Plaza North Building, Komaba Campus, The Kyoto University
Research Report:
Miki Kuramochi (PhD-Candidate, Kyoto University), “La fonction des «plans» dans les peintures de Nicolas Poussin: Autour du Massacre des Innocents au Musée Condé à Chantilly”

The International Workshop for Young Researchers: Aspects of Narrative in Art History

The Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, will hold an international workshop for young researchers on 2-3 December, 2013. The aim is to examine the various aspects of narrative represented in artworks.
Venue: Conference Room, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Yoshida Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, 606-8501 Kyoto, Japan
Contact email: Toshiharu Nakamura （tnakamu＊bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp）
（Change ＊to @.）
Admission to the workshop is free, and no booking is required.
See the program and the abstracts.

Workshop: Historical Studies on Appreciating the Traces of an Artist’s Hand

26. October, 2013, 14:00－18:00
Seminar Room 3, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University
Research Report:
Toshiharu Nakamura (Professor, Kyoto University), “Introduction to the Historical Studies on Appreciation of Traces of the Artist’s Hand: Awareness to the Style and Taste for Oil Sketches”

Research Report at The Japan Art History Society Western Division Meeting

16. March, 2013, 13:00－
Lecture Hall, Nara National Museum
Research Report:
Miki Kuramochi (Doctoral Student, Kyoto University), “A Study of ‘The Triumph of David’ by Poussin at the Museo del Prado, Madrid”