893 search results for “art history” in the Staff website
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Caroline Gräfin von CourtenFaculty of Humanities
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Juliette RodingFaculty of Humanities
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Caroline van EckFaculty of Humanities
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Doreen MüllerFaculty of Humanities
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Stijn BusselsFaculty of Humanities
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Art HotiScience
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Gorillas abducting women leads to new art history
Two statues of gorillas abducting women: they were what led PhD candidate Dick van Broekhuizen to write a new type of history of nineteenth-century sculpture. ‘If you view nineteenth-century art history from a less narrow perspective, the narrative changes completely.’ PhD ceremony on 21 June.
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Newly appointed Art History professor, Minna Valjakka: 'Art teaches us more than you may think'
On 1 January Minna Valjakka was appointed Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory from a Global Perspective. Valjakka sees her appointment as 'extremely topical' because of the discussions about the decolonisation of the arts: 'Art teaches us not just about art, but also about contemporary…
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Hans JanssenFaculty of Humanities
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Nico Arts
Faculteit Archeologie
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Fanny Wonu Veys: ‘I want to introduce students to the art history of Oceania’
Fanny Wonu Veys was appointed Professor of Art and Material Culture of Oceania on 1 August. Time for an introduction.
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From decorative arts student in Leiden to curator at the biggest museum in New York
How does a Leiden alumnus end up working at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)? In the case of Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide, it was partly down to chance, luck, fate. But that was preceded by a unique degree in decorative arts in Leiden.
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Robert ZwijnenbergFaculty of Humanities
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Liselore TissenFaculty of Humanities
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Jacqueline HylkemaFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Leonor Veiga de Oliveira Matos Guilherme PonsarFaculty of Humanities
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Fan LinFaculty of Humanities
- Art History Book Launches
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Steven LauritanoFaculty of Humanities
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Alexander Dencher: ‘I want to give new elan to the study of applied arts’
A successful series of lectures on interior design, a symposium on four-poster beds and a new series of study afternoons on the horizon. University lecturer Alexander Dencher knows how to hold the attention of a growing audience. How does he do it? And what makes the history of interior design so fa…
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Dominant style stifled innovation in 19th century seascapes
Long into the 19th century, seascapes were considered an expression of patriotism. Artists who painted in a 17th century style were valued more. This tradition stifled innovation in the genre, Cécile Bosman has concluded. She will defend her PhD thesis on 13 October.
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An introduction to Performance art (live art)
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Dick van BroekhuizenFaculty of Humanities
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Weixuan LiFaculty of Humanities
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Lieke SmitsFaculty of Humanities
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Is it a fake or not? Time for a new kind of connoisseurship
If a forged Vermeer or Rembrandt is discovered, it is world news. Yet tracing fakes has long been a low priority in art history. University lecturer Anna Tummers will receive an ERC grant of almost two million euros to change that.
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Laurie CosmoFaculty of Humanities
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NWO grant for the Facebook of the past: ‘Circulating images aren’t new’
GIFs, memes and videos: anyone who opens a social media platform can be in no doubt that today we live in a visual culture. But the role of images in social communications isn’t new, says Associate Professor Marika Keblusek. She has been awarded a Dutch Research Council (NWO) Open Competition (Large)…
- Media | Art | Politics (MAP)
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‘Drawing for Dummies’, but in the Renaissance
The way the great masters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries learned to draw is more similar to a present-day drawing class or book than you might think. Professor of ‘Art on Paper and Parchment’ Yvonne Bleyerveld tells us about the art of copying and model books.
- Museum Talks at the Leiden Department of Art History
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Dennie Oude NijhuisFaculty of Humanities
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Marion PluskotaFaculty of Humanities
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Stephanie Noach wins Praemium Erasmianum Foundation Dissertation Prize
Assistant professor Stephanie Noach has won the Dissertation Prize of the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation. She is receiving this prestigious prize for her research on darkness in contemporary art from Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Helen SteeleFaculty of Humanities
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Jeroen TouwenFaculty of Humanities
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Anita van DisselFaculty of Humanities
- Histories Connected
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Performative Photography (mix of photography & art performance)
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Paula HarveyFaculty of Humanities
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Why have murals been used in social and political movements?
Take a walk through any city, and you are likely to come across a brightly coloured mural. Although these paintings often seem to serve solely as a backdrop for Instagram snapshots, art history professor Minna Valjakka says there are rich traditions and intricate histories that uncover more critical…
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Guy LivingstonFaculty of Humanities
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Ksenia FedorovaFaculty of Humanities
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Rens TacomaFaculty of Humanities
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Leo LucassenFaculty of Humanities
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Marlisa den HartogFaculty of Humanities
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Leonard Blussé van Oud AlblasFaculty of Humanities
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Ruurd HalbertsmaFaculty of Humanities
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So long, Gravensteen: ‘History dripped off the walls’
Historic and iconic yet expensive and cold. It’s with mixed feelings that the university is leaving the Gravensteen building, which dates back to the 12th century. How was it to work and study in this former Leiden prison?
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Luuk de LigtFaculty of Humanities