In search of Utopia : art and science in the era of Thomas More / Jan van der Stock.

• Foreword -- In search of Utopia / Jan van der Stock -- Europe-America-Utopia: visions of an ideal world in the sixteenth century / Hans Cools -- Thomas More, 'Utopia' and Leuven: tracing the intellectual and cultural context / Jan Papy -- Erotic Utopia: the 'Garden of Earthly Delights' in context / Paul Vandenbroeck -- The enclosed garden: a Utopian and mystical sanctuary / Barbara Baert -- Beyond the horizon: terra incognita / Emmanuelle Vagnon -- The ultimate Utopia: a universe in the hand / Koenraad van Cleempoel -- 'Utopia' the book, in Leuven and the Low Countries / Jan Papy -- Editions and translations of 'Utopia' 1516-1750 -- Marcus de Schepper -- 'Utopia' and European Humanism / Jan Papy -- The Garden of Eden: the Earthly Paradise / Wendy Wauters -- The conservation enclosed gardens from Mechelen: a close look at fragile mixed media / Lieve Watteeuw -- Dystopia / Daan Van Heesch -- Terra incognito / Emmanuelle Vagnon -- In search of Utopian perfection: builders of scientific instruments: the Leuven School / Koenraad Van Cleempoel -- Eternity: imagining time / Julie Beckers. 

• 2016 marks exactly 500 years since the English humanist and statesman Thomas More published in the city Leuven his world-famous book Utopia. Leuven is celebrating this milestone with a major city festival featuring exhibitions, street art, film, music, theatre, dance, literature, lectures and city walks. The cornerstone is the international, art historical exhibition 'In Search of Utopia' at M - Museum Leuven. The festival will officially start on Monday, 26 September 2016 after a festive opening weekend on 24 and 25 September and will end on 17 January 2017. In the book 'In Search of Utopia? the reader is introduced to the world of More and his friends, with the ideals and dreams of the times. The desire of far-away horizons and the cobweb of new sciences that patiently layed upon the reality. Magnificent works of the 15th- and 16th Century artists: Quinten Metsijs, Hans Holbein, Jan Gossaert en Albrecht Dürer are being brought together in this exciting and intriguing story. It shows in an unexceeded way the imagination of an ideal world. 

Ämnesord

Renässanskonst  (sao)

Konst och vetenskap  (sao)

Utopier  (sao)

Utopier i konsten  (sao)

Kulturfilosofi  (sao)

Renässansens filosofi  (sao)

Utopias in art  (LCSH)

Art, Renaissance  (LCSH)

Art and science  (LCSH)

Culture - Philosophy  (LCSH)

Philosophy, Renaissance  (LCSH)

Utopias  (LCSH)

Europa 

1500-talet  (sao)

Genre

Bildverk  (saogf)

Utställningskataloger  (saogf)

Konferensnamn

Exhibition "In search of Utopia" ((20 oktober 2016 - 17 januari 2017 : Museum Leuven))

Festival "500 Years of Utopia" ((2016 - 2017 : Leuven))

Namn/titel

More, Thomas, Sir, helgon, 1478-1535.: Utopia 

Klassifikation

709.031 (DDC)

Ib.42 (kssb/8 (machine generated))