Lectures will be devoted to the following topics:

1. The latest methods of surveying Dutch paintings

2. Hieronymus Bosch

3. Painting of the late 15th and early 16th centuries in the northern Netherlands (Geertgen tot Sint Jans, Master of Tiburtin Sibylla, Master of the Well of Life)

4. Painting in Antwerp in the 1st quarter of the 16th century: production for the free market (especially commorative works)

5. Jan Gossart zv. Mabuse

6. Maerten van Heemskerck and romantics

7. Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

8. Development of genre painting (especially depictions of the life of peasants and marginal social strata)

9. Reception of Leonardo da Vinci in the works of Quinten Massys, Jan Sanders van Hemessen