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Joris van Gastel studied Art History at VU University Amsterdam and Università Ca' Foscari, Venice. He was involved in the interdisciplinary research project 'Art, Agency and Living Presence in Early Modern Italy' based at Leiden University, where he wrote his PhD thesis titled 'Il Marmo Spirante: Sculpture Experience in Seventeenth-Century Rome'. Following his PhD, he held shorter fellowships in various cities including Florence, Rome, Ferrara, Berlin, and San Marino, CA. He served as a research fellow at the Kolleg-Forschergruppe 'Bildakt und Verkörperung' at Humboldt University in Berlin from 2011 to 2012 and subsequently at the University of Warwick in 2013. He was part of the research group 'Images of Nature' at Hamburg University from 2014 to 2016. He then took up the position of postdoctoral assistant at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome from 2016 to 2018. Since 2018, he has been an assistant professor at the University of Zurich and completed his habilitation project on art materiality in Baroque Naples in 2022. He is set to begin a position as a professor of early modern art and director of the Institute of Art History at Leipzig University in October 2025.
Department of Law