Dr. Ingrid Vermeulen

Biography

Ingrid R. Vermeulen is an Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, specializing in Early Modern Art History. She coordinates the master program in Curating Art Cultures. Vermeulen's research focuses on the history of collecting, historiography of art, and the artistic media of printmaking and drawing within the context of Western Europe during the long eighteenth century. Her work critically examines the impact of postmodernism on art history and visual culture studies, particularly after the late twentieth century. Vermeulen authored the book "Picturing Art History: The Rise of Illustrated History of Art in the Eighteenth Century" (AUP 2010), where she discusses the significance of illustrations, prints, and drawings in the study of artistic history. Her subsequent articles delve into case studies that explore the reception of art and its mediation through historical ideas and reproduction. Collaborating with institutions like KNIR and NIKI, she has developed projects aimed at understanding the artistic taste of nations, funded through grants including the NWO Aspasia. Vermeulen's teaching primarily covers the Master program in Curating Art Cultures and includes courses on Visual Art and Early Modern Visual Arts within the Bachelor's program at the university.

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