Awards
Praemium Erasmianum Dissertation Prize, 2024
Since 1988, the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation awards annual Dissertation Prizes in the fields of Humanities, Social Science and Law. A maximum of five prizes of € 3,000 each are awarded to young academic researchers who have written a PhD dissertation of outstanding quality. The relevant faculties of the Dutch universities are asked to nominate candidates.
(Shortlisted) Jan van Gelder Award, 2024
Dutch Art History Association | Vereniging van Nederlandse Kunsthistorici
- University of Amsterdam Three-minute Thesis Pitch, Second place: €500
- The Seventeenth-Century Research Group Thesis Prize 2018-2020: €500
- Best MA Thesis in the Faculty of Humanities 2018-2019, University of Amsterdam: €1000
Selected Public Talks
The Montias Database: Exploring 17th-Century Dutch Domestic Interiors Digitally
Frick Art Reference Library, 2023
Together with my colleague Leon van Wissen,
Rembrandt in Amsterdam: Creativity and Competition, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Exhibition Symposium, 2021 (Online due to COVID)
During the time of global lockdown due to COVID, I explained that Rembrandt was working from home, as domestic interiors became a critical space for creativity and rivalry.
Mapping 17th-century art market in Amsterdam: Space and Strategy,
CREATE salon: Creative Industries: Then and Now
CREATE Salon: Applying 3D-visualisations to historical research
3D-Visualizations as tools to understand the painting business in Golden Age Amsterdam
3-Minute Thesis (3MT)
While history remembers masters like Rembrandt, there were over a thousand artists working in Amsterdam alone. Using an innovative method called “Deep Mapping,” this research reconstructs the social and economic webs of the past. By layering archival tax records with historical maps, the project reveals how artists strategically navigated the city to connect with clients, proving that location was just as vital as talent in the Dutch Golden Age.
In Press
Left: Research featured in Anne van den Dool, ‘17de-eeuws kunstnetwerk in kaart’, Bulletin van de Vereniging Rembrandt 2021 (3), pp. 50-51. Right: Research featured in Marieke Maathuis, ‘Let’s go digital: Nieuwe kunsthistorische inzichten door big data’, Bulletin Kunsthistorici: Tech-Savvy 2021 (2), pp. 13-14.
Research paths I have explored, and more to come…
My research explores innovative ways to examine, evaluate, and visualize the 17th-century Dutch art, the art market and their global reach.
vIRTUAL INTERIORS
Exploring 17th-century Amsterdam through maps and 3D renderings
r-MA thesis project
Deciphering the art and market in the Dutch Golden Age: Insights from digital methodologies
Rembrandt's neighbourhood
Did Rembrandt make a bad investment buying his house in the Jodenbreestraat?
gERRARD DE LAIRESSE AND HIS WORKSHOP
Did Lairesse paint everything himself? If not, who might sit behind Lairesse's masterpieces?
lAIRESSE & bIDLOO aNATOMIA & ITS WORLD
The Anatomia (1685) by Bidloo and illustrated by Lairesse strings together worlds in art, theater, medicine, and publishing
sPREADING OF IDEAS IN THE dUTCH REPUBLIC
How did artistic idea spread in the Dutch Republic? Examples using obscure subject matter to unveil the transmission of ideas.