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Heritage: Audiovisual material for secondary education
Do you want to get started with audiovisual material for heritage lessons? On Archive for education you will find inspiration about heritage and STEM, heritage and Dutch, heritage and citizenship, heritage and historical awareness, …
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Was Jan Van Eyck a genius?
Leonardo Da Vinci needs no introduction. The world star of the 15th and 16th centuries would have known no equal, but is that true? Wasn't there a homo universalis with Jan Van Eyck a few decades earlier in our own little Belgian country or is …
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What is so special about the Lamb of God?
The Ghent Altarpiece is considered one of the most important Belgian paintings ever, but what can you actually see? Religious historian Danny Praet (UGent) was fascinated by this polyptych as a child and shows us that there is much more to see …
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Lie or Collective Memory: Playlist and Quiz
Lie of Collective Memory is a playlist and a playful introduction to remarkable pieces from the Trezoor heritage depot. Surprising heritage objects, works of art and curiosities each tell a fascinating story… A story that sometimes does violence to …
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What is art?
What if you just color in a number of rectangular surfaces, like Mondrian, are you making art? Or if you stick a banana to the wall, like Maurizio Cattelan? What exactly is art and how has that idea evolved over the centuries? How did we get from …
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The sample of Der Schmied von Gent: A look at the decor studio of Opera Ballet Vlaanderen
In this learning resource, you will see a phenomenal setting created in the decor studio for the opera discovery Der Schmied von Gent by Opera Ballet Vlaanderen.
We hear an employee and the deputy head of the decor studio talking about their part in …
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Building the decor of Rusalka: Who does what?
In this learning resource you can see how the decor of Rusalka is made and what it mainly consists of. The colleagues who speak in this video are a carpenter, a decor workshop employee and a technical designer. Each of them explains what their …
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Making wigs in the opera world: A word of explanation
In this learning resource, the hair and make-up department of Opera Ballet Vlaanderen briefly explains how they make the wigs for the opera Der Schmied von Gent. The difficulty is mainly in the processing of symmetrical or not symmetrical figures …
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Making a table dress in the costume workshop: Testimonial
In this learning resource, you can see how colleagues in the costume workshop at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen make a table dress for Der Schmied von Gent and you get a word of explanation about the design of the table dress.
Very creative and complex …
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Was Van Eyck a marketer rather than an artist?
Was Van Eyck an artistic genius? Of course! He was already renowned in his time as a great talent and is today considered one of the founders of the school of the Flemish Primitives. But don't we also remember Van Eyck's genius today to a …
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How normal is Photoshop?
The legs a little longer, the breasts a bit thicker and the skin a bit whiter / browner. There is regular serious tackling on photoshopped models (and on the magazines / sites where those photos appear). But ... according to Prof. Koenraad …
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Do you recognize a painting made by a robot?
Ann Dooms is a mathematician. She figures and works at the VUB, but you can also find her occasionally in art museums. Because she can program computers to make beautiful art. But what are we with that? Is it still art? Can we call a computer an …
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