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SUMMARY:Ingenuity in the gallery - Alex Marr (Department of History of Art
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CONTACT:Helen Curry
DESCRIPTION:Willem II van Haecht's 'Gallery of Cornelis van der Gheest' (1
 628) is the best known and most extensively discussed example of the Flemi
 sh 'pictures of collections' genre\, which rose to prominence in Antwerp i
 n the first half of the seventeenth century. Yet despite the painting's fa
 me\, a key aspect of its allegory has been curiously overlooked. This pape
 r will argue that the image should be read as a celebration of _ingenium_:
  a shared attribute of the _cognoscenti_ – be they patrons\, artists\, o
 r scholars – that populate the gallery space.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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