Degrees

BA, MSt., DPhil. (Oxon.)

Research interests

European art 1450-1800, especially its intellectual and literary aspects. Creative intelligence and wit in art and artists. The relationship between art and science. Recent work has been on Hans Holbein the Younger, Albrecht Dürer, and Peter Paul Rubens. Further information may be found at his personal website.

Teaching Interests

Part I and Part II core courses; Special Subjects: Rubens: Spirit, Ingenuity, Genius; Tudor Visual Culture.

Awards and prizes

Philip Leverhulme Prize (2008), Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and Royal Historical Society (2012); ERC Consolidator Grant (2014).

Publications

Rubens’s Spirit: From Ingenuity to Genius (2021); Logodaedalus: Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe (2018); Between Raphael and Galileo: Mutio Oddi and the Mathematical Culture of Late Renaissance Italy (2011); Ingenuity in the Making: Materials and Techniques in Early Modern Europe (2021); The Places of Early Modern Criticism (2021); Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (2006).

Other interests

President of the Leonardo da Vinci Society: a learned society dedicated to the study of art and science from the Renaissance to the present day. www.leonardodavincisociety.org.uk