Il marmo spirante : sculpture and experience in seventeenth-century Rome
Gastel, J.J. van
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Gastel, J. J. van. (2011, September 8). Il marmo spirante : sculpture and experience in seventeenth-century Rome. Retrieved from
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Curriculum Vitae
Jan Joris van Gastel (Joris) was born on 12 May, 1977 in Huizen, the Netherlands. After completing high school, he started his studies at the VU University, Amsterdam in 1998, first Computer Science, then Psychology in 1999 and Art History in the year 2000. He graduated cum laude in Theoretical Psychology in 2004 with a thesis on Wittgenstein and the social conception of mind, and a year later in Art History, again cum laude, with a thesis on sculptors’
drawings in renaissance Florence. In 2004, Joris studied for half a year in Venice at the Università Ca’ Foscari with an Erasmus scholarship and after graduating he spent several months at the Dutch Institutes in Florence and Rome. In 2006 he started his tenure as PhD candidate at Leiden University as part of the research project Art, Agency and Living Presence in Early Modern Italy, granted by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). In 2011 he has held scholarships from the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz to do research in the collection of the Bode Museum, Berlin, and from the Fondazione Ermitage Italia, Ferrara, to do research in Italy.
