Prof. J.P. Keizer (Joost)

Joost Keizer is an art historian of early modern Europe with a particular interest in the relationship between art and nature, the political and critical functions of art, and the temporality of artworks.

He is currently working on a project that investigates how Dutch seventeenth-century artists related critically to the drastic changes in contemporary environments, including the drainage of inland bodies of water, the planting of new woods and parcs, the constitution of air, and the expanding knowledge of nature across the Ocean. In a second project, he researches how artists in early modern Europe reformulated the medium of painting after they became familiar with the art of Asia and the Americas.

Keizer supports the broadening of Art History to the study of all material and visual cultures. He is therefore keen on developing new methodologies of looking in the medical sciences for diagnostic purposes.

Before coming to the Radboud, Keizer was Vice-Dean for Education and Associate Professor at the University of Groningen and Assistant Professor at Yale University. His research has been supported by grants from the Mellon Foundation at Columbia University, the Kress Foundation at Villa I Tatti (The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies), and the Freie Universität Berlin.

• Environmental Humanities (RICH)