Founded in 1967 after the exhibition organized in Tournai commemorating the 500th anniversary of the death of Roger de le Pasture, the International scientific association Roger de le Pasture - Rogier van der Weyden promotes the artistic heritage of the region of Hainaut and of the Scheldt basin, for the period extending from the end of the XIVth to the beginning of the XVIth century. It is funding a biennial prize rewarding Master Theses related to the history of figurative arts in the Southern Netherlands during the Burgundian period and has published works related to its object. Sponsored by the City of Tournai, the Association benefits also from the support of the Province of Hainaut.

Charlotte Roland remporte le prix Rogier de le Pasture 2022 pour son mémoire "Le retable des Féries Notre-Dame de la collégiale Sainte-Waudru à Mons"

Ludovic Nys, administrateur de notre association, publie une notice consacrée au lutrin de Leuze-en-Hainaut dans le catalogue de l'exposition "Quand flamboyait la Toison d'Or" à Beaune

Online publication of records related to 668 painters, glassmakers or illuminators whose activity in Tournai is attested from the Middle Ages till the end of the Ancien Regime.

Hannonia publishes the book "Des débats pour une frontière... Entre Flandre et Hainaut : les châtellenies de Lessines et de Flobecq à la fin du Moyen Âge" by Michel Deltenre.

Ronald Van Belle publishes with Van de Wiele a complete catalog of funerary and commemorative copper monuments produced in Belgium, as well as a synthesis of all aspects of this artistic practice little studied so far.

Edited by Didier Martens and Amparo Lopez Redondo, the catalog of the exhibition organized by the Lázaro Galdiano Museum in Madrid systematically analyzes the collection of paintings from the Northern Renaissance that is the richness of this private museum.

Published under the direction of our vice-president Monique Maillard-Luypaert, the volume 14 of the Scientia Artis series focuses on the panels of the abbey church of Saint-Martin in Tournai that Frans Pourbus the Elder realized in 1574 at the request of Father Jean du Quesne.

The volume 13 of the Scientia Artis collection has just been published. Under the pen of Dominique Vanwijnsberghe, director of our foundation, and Eric Verroken, it puts into context the relationship between the scribe Guillebert de Mets, emigrated for political reasons to Grammont after starting his career in Paris, and the illuminators active in the Scheldt valley.

Didier Martens publishes in the last issue of the Revue de l'Art an article about the reception of the Madonna to the canon Van der Paele by Jean van Eyck in Early ... and Modern Netherlandish Art.

The project of our association "La sculpture à Tournai (1198 - 1566)" gets the support of the Fonds Claire and Michel Lemay - King Baudouin Foundation.

Dominique Vanwijnsberghe publishes a study on the importance of the book of hours in the stylistic reconstruction of the manuscripts production centers in our regions.

The manuscripts of the Seminary of Tournai are online! The Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes, an independent institute of the CNRS, has already published a full version of half of them. The rest will follow soon.

The electronic version of "Early Netherlandish Painting," the fundamental work that Max Friedlander devoted in 1920-30 to the early painting of the Netherlands, is now available on the website of the Center for the Study of Flemish Primitives in the edition revised in 1960-70.