Acknowledgements
We would firstly like to thank all the participants in the 2014 Ad Vivum? conference at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. This book would not have been possible without their contributions. The project took shape in dialogue with the foundational studies of ad vivum by Boudewijn Bakker and Claudia Swan that are cited in several of the chapters here. Other sources of inspiration include the influential analysis of the term contrafactum by Peter Parshall, and Joaneath Spicer’s important work on a group of naer het leven drawings mainly attributable to Roelandt Savery. Some of these are in The Courtauld collection and were included in a pop-up exhibition at the 2014 conference expertly organised by the Print Room staff. Also at The Courtauld, we are grateful to Karin Kyburz for her help with picture research, to the Research Committee for a grant towards the purchase of images, and to the Research Forum for supporting our conference. A grant from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands enabled several Dutch scholars to attend Ad Vivum?
Thanks are due to Karl Enenkel and the editorial board of Intersections for their interest and faith in the project. We would also like to express our gratitude to Robert Felfe, Mechthild Fend, Sara Frier, Sam Luterbacher, Sachiko Kusukawa, and Stephanie Porras.