Dr R. van Leeuwen (Rudie)

As an art historian (iconologist), heritage specialist and religious studies scholar, I am well acquainted with the complexity of preserving and presenting cultural heritage and individual historical artifacts. For example, I was involved in the creation of RemDoc, a digital infrastructure to unlock the source material on Rembrandt and his art. My PhD research, which I defended in 2018, is devoted to Dutch portraits in the guise of Biblical figures. I am also co-author of "Rembrandt: The Complete Paintings" XXL (2019). I publish on both early modern and contemporary art.

SPECIALISMS
Early Modern European Art (Renaissance and Baroque)
Northern European Art 1400-1800
Flemish and Dutch Painting of the 16th-17th Centuries / Portraiture

OTHER FIELDS OF INTEREST
Marian iconography
Pictorial tradition of mysticism, dissenterism, esoterism, and the preternatural
Mid-century German ceramics

• Marian Iconography