National Gallery of Denmark opens Illuminated Tracing Bosch and ...
Art Pilots and CATS Based on a shared mission of making the Gallery’s knowledge about art visible and available to users – many different people and professions – conservators, scholars of technical art history, art educators, and young volunteers... The paintings journey The conservators at the National Gallery of Denmark have taken part in a collaborative project that extends across national borders and a range of different professions in order to get closer to the Netherlandish 16th century... The exhibition was staged in collaboration between CATS (Centre for Art Technological Studies and Conservation), the Gallery’s conservators and educators, and 20 art pilots, volunteers from the u. l. k. Art Labs. Four Netherlandish 16th century paintings located at the Kadriorg Art Museum in Tallinn, Glasgow Museums, the National Gallery of Denmark, and a private collection have prompted discussions on the topic of genuine and “fake” paintings. We do not know who painted these four almost identical paintings, but the use of materials and iconography points towards the two Netherlandish master painters Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) and Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1527-1569). The Gallery’s own version of the painting can be found in the exhibition, while the digital material offers visitors the chance to delve into the various layers and strata of all four paintings. Now, the conservators’ and researchers’ studies, techniques, scrutiny of archival materials, and art historical analyses have brought us closer to resolving the mystery surrounding the origins of the four paintings.
