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Caroline Alexandra van Eck FBA (born 22 July 1959) is a Dutch art historian and academic, specialising in the art and architecture of the early modern period. Since 2016, she has been Professor of Art History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. She was Professor of Art and Architecture before 1800 at Leiden University from 2006 to 2016, and previously taught at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the University of Groningen. She was the 2017 Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford.[1][2][3][4][5]

Honours

In March 2014, van Eck was awarded the 2013 Descartes-Huygens Prize. This prize was established by the French and Dutch governments, and is awarded "to recognise researchers for their outstanding work and their contribution to Franco-Dutch relations". Dutch humanities academics are selected for it by the Frech Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques.[6]

In December 2014, van Eck was appointed a Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre National du Mérite by the President of France.[7] She was awarded the Grand Prix du Rayonnement de la Littérature et Culture Françaises by the Académie française in 2015.[8]

In 2020 van Eck was elected a fellow of the Academia Europaea[9] and of the British Academy.[10]

Selected works

  • van Eck, Caroline (1993). Organicism in nineteenth-century architecture: an inquiry into its theoretical and philosophical background. Amsterdam: Architectura & Natura Press. ISBN 978-9071570292.
  • van Eck, Caroline (2007). Classical rhetoric and the visual arts in early modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521844352.

References

  1. ^ "Professor Caroline van Eck". Department of History of Art. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  2. ^ "Caroline van Eck". Academia.edu. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  3. ^ "Caroline van Eck". Leiden University. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  4. ^ "Caroline van Eck appointed to Cambridge's first established chair in the History of Art". Department of History of Art. University of Cambridge. 4 November 2016. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  5. ^ "Professor Caroline Van Eck". King's College. University of Cambridge. 11 November 2016. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  6. ^ "Professors Caroline van Eck and Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson win 2013 Descartes-Huygens Prize". www.knaw.nl. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. 18 December 2013. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  7. ^ "Aafke Hulk et Caroline van Eck : Ordre National du Mérite (1er décembre 2014, Résidence de France)". Frankrijk in Nederland/ La France aux Pays-Bas (in French). 3 December 2014. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  8. ^ "Discours sur les prix littéraires 2015". Académie française (in French). Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  9. ^ "The Department congratulates Professor Caroline van Eck on her election to the Academia Europaea".
  10. ^ "The British Academy welcomes 86 new Fellows from across the humanities and social sciences".
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