Antoine Wiertz (1806–65)

• 19-21 C art history
• Museums, galleries & private collections
• Artists (incl. musicians)

Bram Van Oostveldt is Professor at the Department of Art, Music – and Theatre Studies at Ghent University. Previously, he worked at the University of Amsterdam and at Leiden University. He focuses on seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth-century theatre in relation to the visual arts. In 2013, he published a monograph on Brussels theatre in the eighteenth century (Verloren). With Stijn Bussels, he co-authored The Sublime in the Visual Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic (Routledge, 2023). He is currently leading a research project on theatre and camouflage.

Stijn Bussels is Professor of Art History before 1800 at Leiden University and director of the research center LUCAS (Leiden University Centre for Arts and Society). His books include The Antwerp Entry of Prince Philip in 1549: Rhetoric, Performance and Power (Rodopi, 2012) and The Animated Image: Roman Theory on Naturalism, Vividness and Divine Power (Akademie Verlag, 2012). With Bram Van Oostveldt he co-authored The Sublime in the Visual Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic (Routledge, 2023). He was the Principal Investigator of the ERC starting grant program ‘Elevated Minds. The Sublime in the Public Arts in Seventeenth-Century Paris and Amsterdam’ (2013-18).

Caroline van Eck is Professor of Art History at the University of Cambridge. Her work focuses on architectural history and theory, early modern art and its effect on humans. She received a VICI research grant for her project ‘Art, Agency and Living Presence Responses in Early Modern Italy’. Her publications include Classical Rhetoric and the Visual Arts in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and Art, Agency and Living Presence: from the Animated Image to the Excessive Object (De Gruyter, 2015). In 2023 she published Piranesi’s Candelabra and the Revival of the Past. Excessive Objects and the Emergence of Style in the Age of Neoclassicism (Oxford University Press, 2023). Currently, she directs a research project on Art and Camouflage. In 2015 she was made a Chevalier of the Ordre National du Mérite, and in the same year she received the Grand Prix du rayonnement de la littérature et culture française, awarded by the Académie française. She was elected to the British Academy in 2020.