Dr. Marieke v.den Doel

Marieke J.E. van den Doel is Assistant Professor in History of Humanism at the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht. She is specialized in the relation between Renaissance humanism and art. Recently she published Ficino and Fantasy. Imagination in Renaissance Art and Theory from Botticelli to Michelangelo. She also co-curated the exhibition Vrijdenkers van Spinoza tot nu (Freethinkers from Spinoza until now) at the Amsterdam Museum. Furthermore, she collaborates with prof. Anja Machielse in the research topic Humanism and the Artistic Imagination. From November 2023 onwards Marieke will work on the NWO funded project Nature and Us. An ecocentric Approach towards Early Modern Landscape Painting at the Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar (NWO Museumbeurs): NWO Museum grant for research project 'Nature and Us' on landscape painting - University of Humanistic Studies (uvh.nl).

Before UvH, she has been Director of Studies in Art History at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) and has worked as a Curator of Exhibitions at Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam).

 Marieke will give a keynote lecture at The Renaissance Symposium:
The Ideas, Figures, and Influence of Renaissance Humanism in November 2023 at Palazzo Rucellai, Florence: Neoplatonism and Art: The Case of the Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini.

From November 2023 onwards Marieke will work on the NWO funded project Nature and Us. An ecocentric Approach towards Early Modern Landscape Painting at the Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar (NWO Museumbeurs).

She will contribute to the catalogue and forthcoming exhibition Michelangelo and Men (2024-2025) at Teylers Museum, Haarlem (The idealized naked Body and Michelangelo's Neoplatonism).

In February 2024, Marieke will organize a workshop at the Royal Netherlands University Institute (KNIR) in Rome together with Martijn van Beek (UU): ‘A Great Miracle is Man’:  Anthropocentrism and Ecocentrism in the Early Modern Netherlands and Italy.

With Fiammetta Iovine she is currently editing the volume Visual Humanism in: NIKI Studies in Netherlandish-Italian Art History, Leiden, Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, forthcoming. In this volume also her article on ‘Visual Humanism and Paganism in the Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini’ will be published: www.uvh.nl/onderzoek/leerstoelgroepen-en-projecten/humanisme-en-filosofie/projecten/visual-humanisms

Marieke's book Ficino and Fantasy was placed on the longlist for the Karel van Mander prize 2024.

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Books

Van den Doel, M.J.E., (D. Molnar, transl.) Ficino and Fantasy.  Imagination in Renaissance Art and Theory from Botticelli to Michelangelo, Leiden, Boston, Brill Academic Publishers, 2021 (368 pp). brill.com/view/title/59910

Bormpoudaki, M., Van den Doel, M., Hupperetz, W., Kalafati, F., Morehouse, L., Mulvin, L. and M. Schmauder, Europa in Bewegung. Lebeswelten im fruehen Mittelalter, Bonn, WBG Theiss, 2019.

Bormpoudaki, M., Van den Doel, M., Hupperetz, W., Kalafati, F., Morehouse, L., Mulvin, L. and M. Schmauder, Crossroads. Travelling through the Middle Ages 300-1000 AD, Zwolle, WBooks, 2017.

Bormpoudaki, M., Van den Doel, M., Hupperetz, W., Kalafati, F., Morehouse, L., Mulvin, L. and M. Schmauder, Crossroads. Reizen door de Middeleeuwen 300-1000 n. Chr., Zwolle, WBooks, 2017.

Van den Doel, M.J.E., Pelgrom, J., Weststeijn, A. and T. Weststeijn (eds.), Art and Knowledge in Rome and the Early Modern Republic of Letters, 1500-1750, Fragmenta. Journal of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, 5, Turnhout, Brepols, 2011.

 Van den Doel, M.J.E., Ficino en het voorstellingsvermogen. ‘Phantasia’ en ‘imaginatio’ in kunst en theorie vanaf de Renaissance, PhD Diss. University of Amsterdam 2008.

Van den Doel, M.J.E., Van Eck, N., Korevaar, G., Tummers, A. & T. Weststeijn (eds.), The Learned Eye: Regarding Art, Theory and the Artist’s Reputation: Essays for Ernst van de Wetering, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2005.


Selection of articles

Van den Doel, Marieke, 'Marsilio Ficino: Humanist, Magus, or Philosopher? Review Essay of: Denis J. J. Robichaud, Plato’s Persona: Marsilio Ficino, Renaissance Humanism and Platonic Traditions. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Michael J. B. Allen, Studies in the Platonism of Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico. London: Routledge, 2017. Susan Byrne, Ficino in Spain. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015', in: History of Humanities, 5.1, 1-10. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2021. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/713270
 

Van den Doel, Marieke, ‘The Renaissance Approach of bringing Ancient Egypt back to Life. The Fresco Paintings of Pinturicchio in the Appartamento Borgia’, in: M.J. Versluys, K. Bülow Clausen and G. Capriotti Vittozzi (eds.), Temple - Monument – Lieu de Mémoire. The Iseum Campense from the Roman Empire to the Modern Age: Historical, Archaeological, and Historiographical Perspectives. Rome, 2018.

Van den Doel, M. 'De wereld is een boek. Reizen door de vroege middeleeuwen', in: De Boekenwereld, 34, 42-45.

Van den Doel, M., ‘Sicily’s Role in Art History: The case of Antonello da Messina’, in: D. Burgersdijk e.a. (eds.) War and Storm. Treasures from the Sea around Sicily, Zwolle, WBooks, 2017.

Van den Doel, M., ‘The Middle Ages. Thousand Years in Between’, in: Bormpoudaki, M., Van den Doel, M., Hupperetz, W., Kalafati, F., Morehouse, L., Mulvin, L. and M. Schmauder, Crossroads. Travelling through the Middle Ages 300-1000 AD, Zwolle, WBooks, 2017.

Van den Doel, Marieke, Review P. Taylor (ed),) Meditations on a Heritage: Papers on the Work and Legacy of sir Ernst Gombrich in: History of Humanities, Chicago University Press, 1/1, 2016.


Zie ook: https://uva.academia.edu/MariekevandenDoel

Marieke van den Doel teaches the following courses: Methods of Historical Research (BA), History of Humanism (BA), Sources of Humanism: Nature and Man (MA). She supervises MA theses on a wide range of historical topics or on topics related to art, as well as the PhD project Humanistic Chaplaincy and Art in Prison (Maud Gemmeke).

Member Commissie Verbetering Studiecultuur
Coordinator Premaster Universiteit voor Humanistiek (until 2022)
Member Ethische Toetsingscommissie Universiteit voor Humanistiek (until 2021)