Daantje Meuwissen is assistant professor in Early Modern Art History of Northern Europe. Her research focuses on early modern painting, printmaking and drawing in the North. The earliest known artist active in Amsterdam, Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (ca. 1470-1533), is her special topic of interest. In 2014 she was guest-curator of a large exhibition on this artist in the Amsterdam Museum and Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar: https://issuu.com/amsterdammuseum/docs/facts___figures_van_oostsanen/1

Daantje is currently working on early modern sketchbooks from the North. Only a handful of model-and sketchbooks from the North have survived, but they fulfill a crucial position within art history. Daantje aims to ‘dissect’ the extant Northern sketchbooks from a technical, functional, and comparative perspective. She is currently working on a reconstruction of the Errera-sketchbook from the Antwerp workshop of Joachim Patinir (ca. 1480-1524). 

In August 2024 during a Summer School for the National Research School, Sanne Frequin and Daantje Meuwissen together with Factum Foundation, created a 3D-scan of hte complete barrel vault of the Grote Kerk in Naarden. The national and local media showcased the project, see: Hoe 3D-scans de kunsthistorische geheimen van de Grote Kerk Naarden onthullen - In de media - Universiteit Utrecht and ArtLab / KunstLab | Digital reconstruction for Art History in Grote Kerk Naarden

See also beautifull short video of the project: 

Daantje is coordinator of the Research Master Art History. She teaches courses in the BA-, MA- and RMA-program. In 2024, she was elected ‘Teacher of the Year’.