Dear List, On September 17, 2002 an important presentation in the field of Cultural Heritage will occur in the St Bavo Cathedral in Ghent, Belgium. It is a presentation of a new DVD entitled "De Visione Dei" on the famous Van Eyck altarpiece. This DVD was created by Marc de Mey and other members of the Ghent University, Faculty of Letters who collaborated with the department of Philosophy and Applied Sciences. The DVD will be distributed by Mercatorfonds Publishers. During a conference in Antwerp (HNA Historians of Netherlandish Art, March 2002) I have seen a preview and I can assure you that the imagery of a virtual camera floating through church space towards the altarpiece is just astounding. The DVD starts with a virtual camera floating through the Gothic artchitecture of the cathedral space, tumbling head-over at the last moment and zooming on the Van Eyck painting, focusing on a painted text scroll which can only be properly read upside down. Another section of the DVD is about the gradual build-up of the painting by Jan van Eyck, starting with the one central panel, then a tryptych, adding more parts until in the end the full polyptich setup was reached as it exists today. Another section of the DVD is on theology, discussing whether the central figure is God the Father or Jesus Christ. The DVD which was made for the interested lay person is fascinating in many respects and rich enough in visual quality and contents to be of value to the historian and art historian. The presentation ceremony in the Cathedral is not open to the general public. As an independent art historian I am especially interested in this DVD project as my professional field is Virtual Reality applied to art history. During the past years I have collaborated with departments of the Delft Polytechnic, creating a 'Flight over Delft in 1660' and a section called 'Walking with Vermeer' in which one may actually walk through a series of historic townscape drawings and prints which have been pulled into a 3D movie. These movies are available for free on my Internet site http://www.xs4all.nl/~kalden Yours, Kees Kaldenbach art historian www.johannesvermeer.org ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).