Colloque : “Stradanus at Cooper Hewitt”, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, du 6 au 7 novembre 2025
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is pleased to announce the forthcoming symposium Stradanus at Cooper Hewitt taking place on November 6–7, 2025.
Cooper Hewitt is home to 143 sheets of drawings and inscriptions by the Netherlandish artist Johannes Stradanus (Jan van der Straet, 1523–1605). With support from the Getty’s Paper Project Initiative and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Collections Program, Cooper Hewitt embarked on The Stradanus Project, an effort to conserve, research, and digitize Stradanus’s drawings, which served as preparatory designs for his engravings. At some point in their history, the drawings were bound together to form several sketchbooks that were later disassembled. The leaves were separated and cut apart, and the sheets were laid down on secondary and tertiary supports—perhaps as part of an album that was then again cut apart.
From 2021 to 2022, Cooper Hewitt conducted a conservation survey of all of its Stradanus sketches. Based on this information, the team selected 38 sheets for lining removal and treatment, which was completed in 2024. As a result of conservation work and research, drawings and inscriptions that have been obscured for more than a century have been newly revealed.
To share the discoveries, Cooper Hewitt has launched a website with high-resolution images of the treated drawings and reconstructed sketchbook sheets, an updated catalogue raisonné of the museum’s Stradanus holdings, transcriptions and translations of the newly revealed inscriptions, and detailed information about the
conservation process:
The Stradanus Project
https://www.cooperhewitt.org/the-stradanus-project
The symposium will be free and open to the public. General registration will open in early September through Cooper Hewitt’s The Stradanus Project website.
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
inayaallioui (23 octobre 2025). Colloque : “Stradanus at Cooper Hewitt”, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, du 6 au 7 novembre 2025. Collectif d'Historiens de l'Art de la Renaissance. Consulté le 16 décembre 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/150ue



