Telephone number:	+31 (0)71 527 1637
E-Mail:	e.d.nagelsmit@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department:	Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for Cultural Disciplines, KG Architectuurgeschiedenis
Office Address:	Johan Huizingagebouw Doelensteeg 16 2311 VL Leiden Room number 1.27

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Fields of interest

Early modern art and architecture, architectual theory, and patronage.

Research

After the religious troubles of the sixteenth century, the archdukes Albert and Isabella attempted to restore Habsburg authority and Catholic piety in the Low Countries. Therefore they gave the impetus to the institution or revival of many cults and devotions, founding or benefiting churches and convents all over the Southern Netherlands. In this they were followed by the courtiers at their court in Brussels, which was modelled after monastic examples. The religious patronage of these courtiers has rarely been studied. My research aims to examine how, and to what effect, visual art, altar- and church architecture functioned as agents of change in the religious and political contexts of counter reformation, confessionalization and state formation. A number of important artistic projects in the city of Brussels will be studied by a reconstruction of the art nexus (Gell) in which they are embedded; that is the entire network of social relations in which artworks performed this active function: the patron, the artist, the artwork, the public.

Teaching activities

Honours class "Het effect van kunst en literatuur" (2010-2011)

Curriculum vitae

2009-present, PhD research in the FWO project 'Agents of Change. Beeldende kunst, altaar- en kerkarchitectuur als religieuze actoren in de Spaanse Nederlanden, 1598 - ca. 1656' (co-tutelle Universities of Leiden and Ghent)

2009, MPhil 'Western and Asian Art Histories in Comparative Perspective', Leiden University.

2006, BA Art History, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.

Key publications

'Visualizing Vitruvius: Stylistic pluralism in Serlio's Sixth Book on Architecture', in: J. Keizer, T. Richardson, S. van Romburgh (eds.), The Transformation of Vernacular Expression in Early Modern Arts and Scholarship (Intersections 17), Leiden, Brill, 2011 (forthcoming)