Marieke van den Doel

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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. In 2022, 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 Amsterdam Museum.

Marieke currently works 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).

She also is co-editing Visual Humanism. Collaboration between Artists and Humanists (1400-1700) with Maria Fiammetta Iovine (Brill, forthcoming) and Humanism In Crisis with Christoph Henning and Jan Overwijk (Springer, forthcoming).

Furthermore, she collaborates with prof. Anja Machielse in the research topic Humanism and the Artistic Imagination and with Christoph Henning in the research topic What is Humanistic Art? She is co-supervsisor of the PhD projects of Maud Gemmeke en Miriam Rasch. 

At UvH, she also is chair of the Steering Group Internationalisation.

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).