Jan de Maere

• Professor PhD
• Professor at University Art & Design Cluj

The Romani transnational Identity is greatly immaterial. It is felt and experienced, given and constructed as a complex and multifaceted personal awareness. Groups as well as individuals have multiple identities. The social construct of ‘borders’ and the definition of ‘the other’ by the group provides the negative definition of the ‘Self’. ‘They o...

French language article on the relation of religion and power in Transylvania (until 1920) and in Romania (from 1880 on)

Research about the possible dating of the miniature on parchment in tempera and gold representing Mary Queen of Scots and its possible author

The discovery of the remains of the armorial 1590 of Knight Matyas I Hussar de Brenda (c.1540-1603) at Flanderhof Manor Thalheim/Daia 557213 Romania, and the Hungarian-Turkish Long War (1595-1606)

The 'Anastasis' painting by Marten de Vos as well as the engravings after it inspired many artists in the Netherlands and Italy. Thus, in the Brukenthal collection there is a painting dated c. 1600 by an anonymous contemporary Flemish follower. Stylistic analysis situates it in the circle of Francesco da Castello and Wenceslas Coberger. A similar e...

Let us embark in this essay upon a journey through the annals of human consciousness where the very essence of identity is entwined with the tapestry of memory, geography, history, art. In the grand theater of our minds, analyzed by neuroscience and neuroaesthetics, we observe the eternal ambiguity between emotion, self-awareness, and the warmth of...

To be able to be proud of one's culture is an essential building stone of personal and group identity. Especially for Roma inn Romania this identity problem could be reduced by a Revival of Roma culture in a European setting. A Neurophysiological-Sociological view and status question is about the Roma integration in Romania;

At the end of the XIVth c the influence of the Italian-Gothic style declined in Catalunya y Aragon. Through travelling artists from the north of Europe and the proximity of Avignon and Paris, new realistic trends, style and narratives influenced the local emulation of the International Gothic style. The Parement de Narbonne, the exchange of diploma...

A short chronological overview of military operations during the Habsburg-Ottoman Wars in Transylvania, viewed in its European context. The implication of Michael the Brave and other condottieri in the operations c 1600.

How at the end of the XIXth -early XXth century Arab identity took form in Saoudi Arabia

The Van Eyck brothers and the Science of their time. After the Ghent exhibition (2020) a short overview of which kind of scientific knowledge influenced their work.Ontological aspects of their art and their sources.

The use of Artificial intelligence in the expertise of old Master Paintings and Connoisseurship

Art history has been constantly evolving since Vasari. In the I960 's, Ernst Hans Joseph Gombrich (Vienna, 1909-2001, London) was the first to make the link between the artist's production and the new findings in the cognitive perception of the beholder. It allowed him to give a new dimension to X'onnoisseurship' and its fimction in art histon: Sem...

Les fondations anatomiques et neurophysiologiques du plaisir critique de la dégustation du vin. Nos sensations ne reflètent pas que la réalité, mais aussi le contexte de la dégustation. nos attentes, humeur, et les inférences cognitives auxquelles on est exposé.Un approche neuronal.