Onderzoek

Art historian who studies art materials and techniques. In 2016, I started working as a PhD candidate at Utrecht University in the NICAS project ‘Recipes and Realities, An analysis of texture rendering in still-life painting and the pictorial procedures of Willem Beurs’. I am working on a dissertation about Beurs’ treatise ‘The big world painted small’ (1692) and material depiction in the (long) seventeenth century: the aim to render reality and the mastering of illusional material properties in paint.

Besides painting techniques, I have been researching sculpture of the late medieval and renaissance Low Countries, and the furnishing of villas (‘buitenplaatsen’ in Dutch).