Staff
The Art History section is one of the oldest and largest in the Netherlands, conducting research on and teaching a wide array of Art Historical themes. Willem Vogelsang was the first professor of art history in Utrecht (and in the Netherlands) in 1907. He specialised in analysing the history of composition in art and engaged specialists in the fields of architectural history, iconography and the material-technical aspects of the work of art.
Besides our focus on art historical periods, it now also includes digital art history, material and technical art history, global and transcultural art history, heritage and society, curating and other focus areas. For all our fields of expertise, please have a look at the personal pages of the staff members below.
Prof. Willem Vogelsang (1875 – 1954), first Professor in Art History in Utrecht and the Netherlands.
Dr Lora Sariaslan, researcher in global art history and curator, talking about an exhibition.
Dr Sanne Frequin, researcher in digital art history.
Chair
All staff members
- Globalisation of the Art World, Modern and Contemporary Art, Women's History
- Russian Avant-Garde Art and Theory, Modern and Contemporary Art, Art Theory
- Technical Art History, Visual Art Before 1850
- Visual Art before 1850, Modern and Contemporary Art, Cultural Transfer, Historical Representation, Interdisciplinarity
- History of Art and Science, Technical Art History, Conservation
- Visual Art before 1850, Digital Humanities, 3D Reconstruction, Technical Art History, Cultural Memory
- Art History
- Technical Art History, Environmental Humanities, Visual and Material Culture
- Art History, History of the History of Art, Art and Engagement, Mobility and Migration, Italian Culture
- Anatomical Drawings of Rubens, Visual Art before 1850, Influence of Classical Art on Renaissance Art, Italian Renaissance Drawing, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Relation between Art Theory and the Painter's Practice
- Visual Art before 1850, Art Theory, Art and Culture of the Italian Renaissance, Relation between Art Theory and the Painter's Practice
- Visual Art before 1850, Early Modern Cultural History, Digital Humanities, Cultural Heritage, Golden Age, Mobility and Migration, History of the History of Art, Biographies and Life Stories
- Art History, Visual Art before 1850, Early Modern Cultural History, History of International Relations, Comparative Early Modern Political History, Postcolonial Studies, Archival Research
- Medieval Art, Medieval Iconography, Manuscripts, Visual Culture
- Art History, Modern and Contemporary Art, Museum Studies, Gender and Sexuality
- History of Architecture , Conservation of Monuments and Historic Buildings
- Visual Art before 1850, Social-Economic Art History, History of the History of Art, Historiography, Art and Culture of the Italian Renaissance, Art Theory
- History of Architecture , Cultural Heritage, Art History
- Art History, Modern and Contemporary Art
- Modern and Contemporary Art, Migration, Museum Studies, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Identity, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Postcolonial Criticism, Diaspora and Transnational Studies, Modernism, Heritage Studies
- Digital Humanities, Social-Economic Art History, History of Collecting, Art-Historical Documentation
- Visual and Material Culture, South East Asia, Colonial History
dr. Dirk van de Vijver
ResearcherAssociate ProfessorFaculty Council MemberEmail: d.r.e.vandevijver@uu.nl- History of Architecture , Conservation of Monuments and Historic Buildings
- Visual Art before 1850, Golden Age, Globalisation, China and Europe, Antiquarianism, Art Theory, Relation between Art Theory and the Painter's Practice, History of the History of Art, History of humanities, History of Art and Science, Early Modern Cultural History, Heritage Studies, Cultural Heritage
- Art History, Modern and Contemporary Art, Visual and Material Culture, Applied Arts, History of Textiles
- Visual Art before 1850, Art and Culture of the Italian Renaissance, Art History, Art Theory