Caroline van Eck explained

Caroline Alexandra van Eck (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 by the French 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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Professor Caroline van Eck . Department of History of Art . 30 August 2016 . University of Cambridge . 16 January 2019 . en.
  2. Web site: Caroline van Eck . Academia.edu . 16 January 2019.
  3. Web site: Caroline van Eck . Leiden University . 16 January 2019 . en.
  4. Web site: Caroline van Eck appointed to Cambridge's first established chair in the History of Art . Department of History of Art . University of Cambridge . 16 January 2019 . en . 4 November 2016.
  5. Web site: Professor Caroline Van Eck . King's College . University of Cambridge . 16 January 2019 . en . 11 November 2016.
  6. Web site: Professors Caroline van Eck and Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson win 2013 Descartes-Huygens Prize . www.knaw.nl . Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences . 16 January 2019 . 18 December 2013.
  7. Web site: Aafke Hulk et Caroline van Eck : Ordre National du Mérite (1er décembre 2014, Résidence de France) . Frankrijk in Nederland/ La France aux Pays-Bas . 16 January 2019 . fr . 3 December 2014.
  8. Web site: Discours sur les prix littéraires 2015 . Académie française . 16 January 2019 . Fr.
  9. Web site: The Department congratulates Professor Caroline van Eck on her election to the Academia Europaea. 28 May 2020.
  10. Web site: The British Academy welcomes 86 new Fellows from across the humanities and social sciences.