India! Three lectures at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

picture (c) Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, invo.no. RP-T-1993-118. Gift of P. Formijne

The Asian Arts Society in the Netherlands (VVAK) organises a series of lectures around the theme ‘India’, with Professor Jos Gommans (Leiden University) on his most recent publication, Rijksmuseum curator Anna Slaczka, curator Isabella Nardi and conservator Amélie Couvrat Desvergnes. Followed by a visit to the exhibition Indian miniatures. The lectures are in English.

For full information and registration, see: www.vvak.nl/en/agenda/2018/india/

14.00 uur Anna Slaczka
Curator South Asian art Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Introduction

14.15 uur Jos Gommans
Professor of Colonial and Global History Leiden University
Title lecture: Indo-Dutch Entanglements in the Age of Rembrandt, on Gommans’ latest book The Unseen World(March 2018) that offers a connective, comparative and entangled perspective on the relations between the Netherlands and India during the seventeenth century.

14.45 uur Isabella Nardi
Independent researcher (PhD, SOAS) specialized in South Asian art history with particular reference to painting and visual culture from Rajasthan (16th-20th century)
Title lecture: Kṛṣṇa Overturning the Cart: unfolding the visual history of a page from the ‘Palam’ Bhāgavata Purāṇa. 

15.30 uur Amélie Couvrat Desvergnes
Paper conservator Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Title lecture: Pahari paintings and drawings from the Rijksmuseum: techniques of production and approach to conservation.

16.00 uur Visit Indian miniatures in the Asian Pavilion 

Registration

If you would like to attend the afternoon, please register via the website of the VVAK: www.vvak.nl/en/agenda/2018/india/

IIAS is a sponsor of the Asian Arts Society in the Netherlands (VVAK).