Personal profile

Teaching

Before I arrived at the VU in the summer of 2023, I was a lecturer at Utrecht University, the University of Amsterdam and the University of Geneva.

I have taught on a wide range of subjects, including Philosophy of Science (for the Humanities), Early Modern Art in the Low Countries and Italy (Rome, Naples, Venice), Artist Mobility, The Artist and Artistic Practices, Protestant Reform and Counter Reformation, the Grand Tour, Technical Art History. 

Research

Research Profile

I am a specialist on early modern Netherlandish and Italian art and European art theory. My research focuses on artist mobility and cultural exchange, creativity, the language of art, practices, and temporality. A profound curiosity about the conditions under which artists conceived and created their work within a society unites these themes.

N.B. Research Output on this page is limited to my publications and activities since I started at the VU. For more information, consult my Academia or ORCID profile.

My Trajectory as a Researcher

Between 2017 and 2022, I worked at the University of Geneva as a researcher in the FNS-project 'Un siècle d'Or? Repenser la peinture hollandaise du XVIIe siècle', directed by prof.dr. Jan Blanc (https://www.dutch-golden-ages.com/). The project re-examined commonly held notions about the idiosyncrasy of Dutch Golden Age culture and art. In the context of this project, I published, amongst others, an edited volume on pictorial genres. In addition, I directed a database project on travel journals of visitors to the Dutch Republic, in collaboration with the RKD (Dutch National Institute for Art History), which resulted in the publication of a book for the general public ('Op bezoek in de Republiek', 2022, co-edited with Angela Jager).

Between April 2015 and August 2017 I was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Montpellier in the ERC-project "LexArt: Words for Art 1600-1750" (PI: prof.dr. Michèle-Caroline Heck) on the diffusion of art terminology in early modern Transalpine Europe (www.lexart.fr). For the LexArt database, my focus was on the Dutch texts (Franciscus Junius, Willem Goeree, De Lairesse's Grondlegginge and Willem Beurs). Within the context of the project, I published on the Dutch seventeenth- and eighteenth-century terminology for Genius, Talent and Passion (for Art), as well as on the terminology for technique in Dutch art literature and on German seventeenth- and eighteenth-century translations of Dutch art literature.

I received my bachelor and research master degree in Art History at Utrecht University (both with honours). My PhD research, conducted at the University of Amsterdam between 2010 and 2014, was on the social and artistic integration of Netherlandish painters in early modern Naples (supervisors prof. dr. Eric Jan Sluijter and dr. Arjan de Koomen, defended in April 2015). A revised version of my dissertation was published with Amsterdam University Press in April 2019 and received a number of laudatory reviews and was awarded the Research Prize of the Dutch-Flemish Werkgroep Italië Studies (2022).

Academic Service

Editorial Board Member: EMLC Journal (since 2022) https://emlc-journal.org/

Editorial Board Member: Zeven Provinciën Reeks - Uitgeverij Verloren (since 2022)

Editorial Board (and co-founder) book series: Gouden Eeuw: New Perspectives on Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art - Brepols Publishers (since 2018)  https://www.brepols.net/series/gouden

Member JHNA (Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art) Digital Advisory Group (since 2019)

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  • N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR

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  • Migration
  • Practice theory
  • Creativity
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