Toshiharu Nakamura Professor, PhD (Kyoto University)

Research Interests

• Peter Paul Rubens and his workshop, his collaboration with specialists and his relationship with Van Dyck as workshop assistant
• Formation of taste for drawings, sketches, and unfinished works among art lovers in the 17th and 18th centuries
• Images of family, mother and child, and the home in northern Europe in the 17th century

Selected Publications

・Monograph

• Toshiharu Nakamura, Inspiration and Emulation: Selected Studies on Rubens and Rembrandt, Kayo Hirakawa (ed.), Peter Lang, Bern, 2019.

• Peter Paul Rubens between Art and Politics, Sangensha Publishers, Tokyo 2006. [Japanese]

・Edited Books and Catalogs

• Kyoto Studies in Art History, vol. 2: Appreciating the Traces of an Artist’s Hand, Department of Aesthetics and Art History, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 2017.
• Bijutsu Forum 21, vol. 33: The Stages of Life in Art, Kyoto, 2016 [Japanese/Abstract in English]
• Images of Familial Intimacy in Eastern and Western Art, The Intimate and the Public in Asian and Global Perspective, vol. 4, Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2014.
• Exh. Cat., Rubens: Inspired by Italy and Established in Antwerp, The Mainichi Newspapers, Tokyo, 2013. [Japanese]
• Essays for the Exhibition Catalogue, Rubens: Inspired by Italy and Established in Antwerp, The Mainichi Newspapers, Tokyo, 2013.
• Exh. Cat. Milkmaid by Vermeer and Dutch Genre Painting, Tokyo Shimbun, Tokyo, 2007. [Japanese]
• Essays for the Exhibition Catalogue, Milkmaid by Vermeer and Dutch Genre Painting, Tokyo Shimbun, Tokyo, 2007.
• Rembrandt as Norm and Anti-Norm: Papers Given at a Colloquium Held at the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, December 15, 2002, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 2004.
• Exh. Cat. Dutch Art in the Age of Frans Hals from the Collection of Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Tokyo Shimbun, Tokyo, 2003.
• Exh. Cat. European Baroque Paintings from The John and Ringling Museum of Art and the Bob Jones University Museum Gallery, Tokyo Shimbun, Tokyo, 1997.
• Exh. Cat. Rembrandt: His Teachers and Pupils, The Tokyo Shimbun, Tokyo, 1992.
• Rubens and His Workshop: The Flight of Lot and His Family from Sodom, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 1994.

・Co-Authored Books

• Yoshiki Ono, Toshiharu Nakamura, Kikuro Miyashita, Noriko Mochizuki, A History of Western Art, vol. 6, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Chuokoron-Shinsha, 2016 (Introduction and Chapter 3 “The Netherlandish Art in the Seventeenth Century,” pp. 17–52, 397–524).

・Essays

• “The Penitent Magdalene from the Former Joseph Robinson Collection: Young van Dyck Working up Rubens’s Conception”, Justus Lange and Birgit Ulrike Münch (ed.), Reframing Jordaens: Pictor Ductus-Techniques-Workshop Practice, Petersberg, 2018, pp. 75－91.
• “Rubens and the History of the Oil Sketch”, Toshiharu Nakamura (ed.), Kyoto Studies in Art History, vol. 2: Appreciating the Traces of an Artist’s Hand, Department of Aesthetics and Art History, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 2017, pp. 19–39.
• “The Court of Philip IV and Rubens: Toward an Interpretation of Las Meninas”, Velazquez and the Baroque Painting: Influence, Contemporaneity, Reception & Heritage, Tokyo, 2016, pp. 19–28. [Japanese]
• “The Stages of Life in Art”, Bijutsu Forum 21, vol. 33: The Stages of Life in Art, Kyoto, 2016, pp. 26－26, 142-144. [Japanese/Abstract in English]
• “Representations of Elderly People in 17th Century Dutch and Flemish Genre Painting: Old Age as a Stage of preparation for the Afterlife”, Bijutsu Forum 21, vol. 33: The Stages of Life in Art, Kyoto, 2016, pp. 76－81, 142. [Japanese/Abstract in English]
• “Front Cover Illustration: Pieter de Hooch, Woman with a Child in a Pantry”, Bijutsu Forum 21, vol. 33: The Stages of Life in Art, Kyoto, 2016, pp. 133－136. [Japanese/English]
• “Frans Hals’s Painterly Style and His Tronie-like Genre Paintings: An Examination of the Influence of Flemish Head Studies”, Kayo Hirakawa (ed.), Kyoto Studies in Art History, vol. 1: Sacred and Profane in Early Modern Art, Department of Aesthetics and Art History, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 2016, pp. 59－84.
• “An Introduction to Interpreting Images of Family, Mother and Child, and the Home”, Toshiharu Nakamura (ed.), Images of Familial Intimacy in Eastern and Western Art, Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2014, pp. 1－53.
• “How to Construct Better Narrative Compositions: Rembrandt’s Probable Teaching Methods and Instruction”, Kayo Hirakawa (ed.), Aspects of Narrative in Art History, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 2014, pp.  73－84.
• “Rubens’s Painting Practice: Some Considerations on His Collaboration with Specialists and His Relationship with Van Dyck as Workshop Assistant”, Toshiharu Nakamura (ed.), Essays for the Exhibition Catalogue, Rubens: Inspired by Italy and Established in Antwerp, The Mainichi Newspapers, Tokyo, 2013, pp. 5－20.
• “Rubens’ ‘Judgement of Art’ and Sensuality: Criticism of Depictions of Nudity in the Age of Counter-Reformation”, Studies in Western Art, 16, 2012, pp. 85－110. [Japanese/Abstract in English]
• “Housewives and Maidservants in Dutch Seventeenth Century Paintings”, Toshiharu Nakamura (ed.), Essays for the Exhibition Catalogue, Milkmaid by Vermeer and Dutch Genre Painting, Tokyo Shimbun, Tokyo, 2007, pp. 14－21.
• “A Struggle for Independence?: Young Van Dyck and Rubens”, Studies in Western Art, 13, 2007, pp 158―184. [Japanese]
• “Van Dyck and Charles I: A Review of the London Years”, Studies in Western Art, 12, 2006, pp. 47―67. [Japanese/Abstract in English]
• “Rembrandt’s Blinding of Samson: A Work for Artistic Emulation with Rubens?”, Akira Kofuku (ed.), Rembrandt and Dutch History Painting in the 17th Century, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2004, pp. 123-138.
• “Rembrandt’s Andromeda”, Toshiharu Nakamura (ed.), Rembrandt as Norm and Anti-Norm: Papers Given at a Colloquium Held at the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, December 15, 2002,  Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, 2004, pp. 31－60.
• “Haarlem Mannerism and Karel van Mander’s View of Painting”, Exh. Cat. Dutch Art in the Age of Frans Hals from the Collection of Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Tokyo Shimbun, Tokyo, 2003, pp. 138－142.
• “Rubens’ Approach to Ancient Sculpture and his Relationship with Annibale Carracci”, Studies in Western Art, 7, 2002, pp. 57－75. [Japanese/Abstract in English]
• “A Study of The Horrors of War by Rubens: The Story of Mars and Venus, Its Allegorical Meanings and the Iconographic Tradition”, Studies in Western Art, 1, 1999, pp. 49－82. [Japanese/Abstract in English]
• “Rubens and Flower Still Life Paintings: Regarding ‘Pausias and Glycera'”, Exh. Cat. European Baroque Paintings from The John and Ringling Museum of Art and the Bob Jones University Museum Gallery, Tokyo Shimbun, Tokyo, 1997, pp. 163－168.
• “An Investigation on Rubens’s ‘The Hero (Tugendheld) Crowned by Victory’ and ‘Drunken Hercules'”, Bijutsushi: Journal of the Japan Art History Society, 45/2(140), 1996, pp. 138－157. [Japanese/Abstract in English]
• “Marten de Vos, ‘The Last Supper'”, Annual Bulletin of The National Museum of Western Art, 27－28, 1996, pp. 13－19.
• “Rembrandt’s Workshop and Rembrandt as a Teacher”, Exh. Cat. Rembrandt: His Teachers and Pupils, The Tokyo Shimbun, Tokyo, 1992, pp. 199ー209.
• “P. P. Rubens ‘Die Geißelung Christi der Paulskirche zu Antwerpen'”, Bijutsushi: Journal of the Japan Art History Society, 37/2 (124), 1989, pp. 109－121. [Japanese/Abstract in German]
• “Rubens’ Tod von Seneca: Ein Aspekt der Antikenrezeption”, Bigaku: Journal of the Japanese Society of Aesthetics, 44/3, 1987, pp. 50－62. [Japanese/Abstract in German]

Selected Presentations

• “Rubens and the History of the Oil Sketch”, Kyoto Art History Colloquium: Appreciating the Traces of an Artist’s Hand, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 25. September, 2016.
• “The Court of Philip IV and Rubens: Toward an Interpretation of Las Meninas”, The International Symposium: Velazquez and the Baroque Painting, Ono Memorial Hall, Waseda University, Tokyo, 4. March, 2016.
• “Virtues and Vices of Old People in Netherlandish Seventeenth-Century Genre Paintings”, KUASU The 8th Next Generation Global Workshop: Demographic Challenges in the Era of Global Ageing and Migration, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 1. August, 2015.
• “Old women and men in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Painting”, The 10th Annual Symposium of Japanese Association for Art Studies: The Poetics of the Ordinary Life, Lecture Hall, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 13. June, 2015.
• “Making of Frans Hals’s Painterly Style: An Examination of the Influence of Antwerp Painters”, Kyoto Art History Colloquium: Sacred and Profane in Early Modern Art, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 4. October, 2014.
• “Notes on the Interpretation of Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting”, Kyoto University and National Taiwan University Symposium 2014, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 1. September, 2014.
• “How to Construct Better Narrative Compositions: Rembrandt’s Probable Teaching Methods and Instruction”, The International Workshop for Young Researchers: Aspects of Narrative in Art History,  Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 2-3 December 2013.
• “The Penitent Magdalene from the Former Joseph Robinson Collection: Young Van Dyck Working up Rubens’s Conception”, International Symposium: Jacob Jordaens: Origin, Transformation, Conservation, Gartensaal der Orangerie, Kassel, Germany, 7 May 2013.
• “Young Van Dyck as an Imitator of Rubens and His Struggle for Novelty”, Beijing Forum 2011: The Harmony of Civilizations and Prosperity for All, Panel V: Artistic Heritage and Cultural Innovation, Beijing University, Beijing, 6 November 2011.
• “Rembrandt’s ‘Blinding of Samson’: A Work for Artistic Emulation with Rubens?”, Symposium: Rembrandt and 17th-Century Dutch History Painting, The National Museum of Western Art, 14 September 2003.
• “Rembrandt’s Andromeda”, International Colloquium: Rembrandt as Norm and Anti-Norm, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, 15 December 2002.

Exhibition Curating

• “Rubens: Inspired by Italy and Established in Antwerp”, The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 9 March－21 April 2013; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, 28 April－16 June 2013; The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Nagaoka, 29 June－11 August 2013.
• “Milkmaid by Vermeer and Dutch Genre Painting”, The National Art Center, Tokyo, 26 September－17 December 2007.
• “Dutch Art in the Age of Frans Hals from the Collection of Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem”, The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata, 7 October－30 November 2003; Toyohashi City Museum of Art, Toyohashi, 6 December 2003－18 January 2004; Sakura City Museum of Art, Sakura, 24 January－7 March 2004.
• “European Baroque Paintings from The John and Ringling Museum of Art and the Bob Jones University Museum Gallery”, The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Hiratsuka, 26 April―8 June 1997; Tobu Museum of Art, Tokyo, 19 June－27 July 1997; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Takamatsu, 5 August－7 September 1997;The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, 13 September－26 October 1997.
• “Rubens and His Workshop: The Flight of Lot and His Family from Sodom”, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 13 July－29 August 1993.
• “Rembrandt: His Teachers and Pupils”, The Bunkamura Museum of Art, 15 April－7 June 1992; Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Sakura, 13 June－2 August 1992; Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum, 7 August－16 September 1992.

Research Projects

• “Historical Studies on Appreciating the Traces of an Artist’s Hand”, 2013－2017 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
• “Internal and External Relations of Artist Workshops: Aspects of Leaning, Collaboration, and Emulation”, 2009－2012 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
• “Representations of Home, Women and Children in the Eastern and Western Art”, 2008－2009 Global COE for Reconstruction of the Intimate and Public Spheres in 21^st Century Asia, Kyoto University.
• “Studies on Ephemeral Displays of Artworks in the Pre-modern Times”, 2005－2008 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Academic Career

• April 1989－March 1993　Curator at the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
• April 1993－March 2003　Associate Professor at the Faculty of Letters/Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University
• From April 2003　Professor at the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University

Kayo Hirakawa Professor, PhD (Kyoto University)

Research Interests

• The diversification of painting forms in Northern Europe in the 16th and early 17th centuries
• The artistic relationship between Northern Europe and Italy in the 15th and 16th centuries
• Albrecht Dürer and the reception of his art in Northern Europe of the 16th and early 17th centuries

Contact Details

Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 6068501 Japan

hirakawa.kayo.6z*kyoto-u.ac.jp (change * to @)

Selected Publications

・Monograph

• The Pictorialization of Dürer’s Drawings in Northern Europe in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Peter Lang, Bern, 2009.

・Edited Books

• Toshiharu Nakamura, Inspiration and Emulation: Selected Studies on Rubens and Rembrandt, Kayo Hirakawa (ed.), Peter Lang, Bern, 2019.
• Kyoto Studies in Art History, vol. 1: Sacred and Profane in Early Modern Art, Department of Aesthetics and Art History, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 2016.
• Aspects of Narrative in Art History: Proceedings of the International Workshop for Young Researchers, held at the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto 2-3 December 2013, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 2014.

・Essays

• “Longing for Eternity: Oil Painting on Copper in a Pre-Modern Global Context”, Stefan Albl, Berthold Hub, and Anna Frasca-Rath (ed.), Close Reading: Kunsthistorische Interpretationen vom Mittelalter bis in die Moderne; Festschrift für Sebastian Schütze, De Gruyter, Berlin and Boston, 2021, pp. 182―189.
• “Art and Society in the Early Modern Era: Workshop, Guild, Market, and Politics”, Studies in Western Art, 20, Methods and Practices of Art History, 2020, pp. 49－63. [Japanese/Abstract in English]
• “Spranger’s Last Judgement: Copperplate Oil Painting as Devotional Art”, Kyoto Bijutsushigaku: Journal of the Kyoto Society for Art History, 1, 2020, pp. 27-64. [Japanese]
• “Aspects of the Man of Sorrows in Early Modern Germany: From Pleydenwurff to Dürer”, Mikinosuke Tanabe (ed.), European Medieval Art, vol. 3, Andachtsbilder, Chikurinsha, 2018, pp. 403-424.[Japanese]
• “Albrecht Dürer’s The Desperate Man; Fleeing Images and the Creating Hand”, Toshiharu Nakamura (ed.), Kyoto Studies in Art History, vol. 2: Appreciating the Traces of an Artist’s Hand, Department of Aesthetics and Art History, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 2017, pp. 3–18.
• “Rarity, Curiosity, and Novelty: The Diversification of Painting Forms in Northern Mannerism”, The Journal of Philosophical Studies, 600, pp. 105-147, 30.[Japanese/Abstract in English]
• “Signboard for a Schoolmaster by the Holbein Broghers: Teaching and Learning as Depicted in Early Modern German Art”, Bijutsu Forum 21, col. 33: The Stages of Life in Art, Kyoto, 2016, pp. 35－40, 142. [Japanese/Abstract in English]
• “The Man of Sorrows in the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe: A Reconsideration of Dürer’s Gold-Ground Painting”, Kayo Hirakawa (ed.), Kyoto Studies in Art History, vol. 1: Sacred and Profane in Early Modern Art, Department of Aesthetics and Art History, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 2016, pp. 3－18.
• “Narrative and Material: Paintings on Rare Metal, Stone and Fabric in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries”, Kayo Hirakawa (ed.), Aspects of Narrative in Art History, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 2014, pp. 33－46.
• “Faith, Family and Politics in Lucas Cranach the Elder’s Holy Kinship Altarpiece”, Toshiharu Nakamura (ed.), Images of Familial Intimacy in Eastern and Western Art, Brill, Leyden and Boston, 2014, pp. 54－82.
• “‘Four Elements’ by Hans von Aachen: Longing for the Rarity, Kyoto Studies in Aesthetics and Art History, 12, 2013, pp. 27－62. [Japanese/English version is now in preparation]
• “Spranger’s Italian Period and his Copperplate Paintings”, Kyoto Studies in Aesthetics and Art History, 10, 2011, pp. 133-162. [Japanese/English version is now in preparation]
• “Between the Ephemerality and the Immortality: Bronzino’s ‘Allegory of Happiness'”, Kyoto
  Studies in Aesthetics and Art History, 9, 2010, pp. 1－34. [Japanese/English version is now in preparation]
• “Birth of the Painting on Copperplate”, Kyoto Studies in Aesthetics and Art History, 8, 2009, pp. 1－31. [Japanese/English version is now in preparation]
• “Brueghel detto Infernale: ‘The Fire of Troy’ by Jan Brueghel the Elder”, Chaos, 2, Graduate School of Literature, Arts and Cultural Studies, Kinki University, 2005, pp. 131－161. [Japanese/English version is now in preparation]
• “Dürer and Jan Brueghel the Elder: One Aspect of the Pictorialization of Dürer’s Drawings at the Court of Rudolf II”, in Aesthetics, 10, The Japanese Society for Aesthetics, 2002, pp. 61－73.
• “Albrecht Dürer’s ‘Landauer Altarpiece’: Painter and Sculptor in Nuremberg”, Studies in Western Art, 7, 2002, pp. 24－41. [Japanese/Abstract in English]
• “Albrecht Dürer’s ‘Bagnacavallo Madonna'”, Bijutsushi: Journal of the Japan Art History Society, 146, The Japan Art History Society, 1999, pp. 344－361. [Japanese/Abstract in German]

Selected Presentations

• “Longing for Eternity: Oil Painting on Copper in a Pre-Modern Global Context,” Keynote Lecture, The Second Joint Workshop Kyoto University―University of Vienna, Kyoto University, 24, October, 2019.
• “Spranger Copies Fra Angelico on the Copperplate: The Last Judgement for Pius V”, VI. Bodensee-Gespräche über Kunst/Bodoman Art Talks, Reinwaldhaus, Ludwigshafen-Bodman, Germany, 11, July, 2019.
• “Nature and Meditation: Landscape Painting in Early Modern Europe”, Kyoto University International Symposium: Does Nature Think? UNESCO, Paris, 7. June, 2019.
• “Netherlandish Baroque Painting: The Emergence of Specialists and the Golden Age of the Painting”, Lecture at the exhibition: Old Masters from the State Hermitage Museum, Lecture Hall, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, 25. November, 2017.
• “Pre-Modern European Painting and the Restoration”, Lecture at the exhibition: SOUKOU—Japan Way to Beauty and Preserve Cultural Heritage, Lecture Hall, The Kyoto University Museum, Kyoto, 11. February, 2017.
• “Albrecht Dürer’s The Desperate Man: Fleeting Images and the Creating Hand”, Kyoto Art History Colloquium: Appreciating the Traces of an Artist’s Hand, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 25. September, 2016.
• “The Fascination of Early German Prints”, Lecture at the exhibition: Sacred and Secular: Israhel van Meckenem & Early German Engraving, Lecture Hall, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 6. August, 2016.
• “Challenge for Virtuosos: German Prints and Goldsmith Works in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries”, Symposium of Japan Association for Studies of Art in German Speaking Countries: Print as a Place for Creation, Communication and Memory, 2302 Room, Building 2, Shirokane Campus, Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo, 5. December, 2015.
• “Rarity, Curiosity and Novelty: Aspects of the Diversification of Painting Forms in Northern Mannerism”, The Annual Meeting of Kyoto Society of Philosophers, International Assembly Room, Clock Tower Centennial Hall, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 3. November, 2015.
• “The Man of Sorrows in the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe: A Reconsideration of Dürer’s Gold-Ground Panel Painting”, Kyoto Art History Colloquium: Sacred and Profane in Early Modern Art, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 4. October, 2014.
• “Die Erfindung der Ölgemälde auf der Kupferplatte im sechzehnten Jahrhundert”, Aspekte des Erzählens in Kunst und Kunstgeschichte, Reinwaldhaus in Ludwigshafen-Bodman, Germany, 11. July, 2014.
• “Narrative and Material: Paintings on Rare Metal, Stone and Fabric in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries”,  The International Workshop for Young Researchers: Aspects of Narrative in Art History, Graduate Schoolof Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 2-3 December 2013.

Research Projects

• “Jan Brueghel the Elder as a Storyteller”, 2018－2021 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
• “Rarity, Curiosity and Novelty: Aspects of the Diversification of Painting Forms in Northern Mannerism”, 2014－2016 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
• “The Birth and Development of the Copperplate Painting: The Cultural Exchange between the Northern and Southern Europe”, 2009－2011 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
• “Emulation with Old Masters: Reception and Adaptation of Northern Renaissance Art in Prague Mannerism”, 2005－2007 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
• “Dürer Collection and Dürer Renaissance at the Court of Rudolf II”, 2002 Grant-in-Aid, The Kajima Foundation for Art.
• “Historical Studies of German Art in the 15th and 16th Centuries, especially of Albrecht Dürer”, 1997-2000 JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Academic Career

• April 2001－March 2009　Lecturer/Associate Professor at the School of Literature, Arts and Cultural Studies, Kinki University
• September 2007－March 2008　Studied at the Max-Planck Institute for Art History in Rome on the research fellowship of Kinki University
• April 2009－March 2017　Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University
• October 31－November 13 2013　Short-term stay at the University of Vienna on the Researcher Exchange Programs with Oversea Partner Institutions of Kyoto University
• 30 March－30 September 2014　Guest Researcher at Trier University under the sponsorship of the Kyoto University Global Frontier Project for Young Professionals: The John Mung Advanced Program
• From April 2017　Professor at the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University

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
See the flyer.

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”

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

2013－2017 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Organization
Toshiharu Nakamura (Kyoto University, Flemish and Dutch Painting of the 17th Century)
Takanori Nagai (Kyoto Institute of Technology, French Modern and Contemporary Art)
Sigeki Abe (Chuo University, French Art and Art Theory of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries)
Tomoko Yoshida (Kyoto Notre Dame University, French Painting of the Eighteenth Century）
Michiko Fukaya, Associate Professor of Kyoto City University of Arts (Dutch Painting of the 17th Century)
Kayo Hirakawa (Kyoto University, Northern Renaissance Art)
Azusa Kenmochi (Kinki University, Italian Renaissance Art)
Kensuke Nedachi (Kyoto University, Japanese Buddhist Sculpture)
Atsuo Yasuda (Aichi University of Education, Early Modern Japanese Painting)
Momo Miyazaki (The Museum Yamato Bunkakan, Edo Painting)

Workshops and Research Reports

• 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
  See the flyer.

• 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”
• 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”

Tenured Staff

Kayo Hirakawa, Professor（Northern Renaissance Art/Lecture, Special Lecture, Seminars I-III）

Guest Lecturers of Academic Year 2023

Miki Kuramochi, Lecturer of Kobe Gakuin University (French Barock Painting/Seminar II)

Chihiro Tennojiya (French Realism Painting/Seminar II)

Miyuki Yamagata (Early Netherlandish Painting/Seminar II)

Retired Staff

Toshiharu Nakamura, Associate Professor: April 1993-March 2003, Professor: April 2003-January 2018（Flemish and Dutch Painting of the 17th Century）

Hisao Miyajima, Professor: April 1996-March 1998 (Modern Design)

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