Prof. dr. Joris van Gastel
Joris van Gastel studied Psychology and Art History at the VU University Amsterdam and the Università Ca' Foscari, Venice. Between 2006 and 2011 he was part of the interdisciplinary research project «Art, Agency and Living Presence in Early Modern Italy» based at Leiden University, in the context of which he wrote his PhD thesis «Il Marmo Spirante: Sculpture and Experience in Seventeenth-Century Rome». In addition to shorter fellowships in Florence, Rome, Ferrara, Berlin and San Marino, CA, he was research fellow at the Kolleg-Forschergruppe «Bildakt und Verkörperung» (Humboldt University, Berlin, 2011–2012), the University of Warwick (2013), and the research group «Images of Nature» (Hamburg University, 2014–2016), followed by a position as postdoctoral assistant at the Bibliotheca Hertzian – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome (2016–2018). Between 2018 and 2024 he was assistant professor at the University of Zürich, where in 2022 he completed his habilitation with a project on art and materiality in baroque Naples. Following a nine-month research stay at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Madrid with a Ramón y Cajal grant, in October 2025 he took up a position as professor for early modern art as well as director of the Institute for Art History at Leipzig University.
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