Jan Van der Stock

Jan Van der Stock (1959) is a full professor at the KU Leuven, where he lectures on Medieval Art, Graphic Arts, Iconography, Iconology, and Curatorship and also teaches a General Introduction to the Art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. He is the director of Illuminare – Centre for the Study of Medieval Art (KU Leuven), and holder of both the Van der Weyden Chair - Paul & Dora Janssen and the Veronique Vandekerchove Chair of the City of Leuven.

Since 1985 he has been responsible for the academic and organisational sides of a number of international exhibitions in Brussels (1985 and 1991), Vienna (1991), Saint Petersburg (1996), Florence (1996), Antwerp (1993 and 1997), Paris (2013) and Leuven (2002, 2009, 2010 and 2013). Amongst the most recent are Rogier van der Weyden. Master of Passions (2009, Leuven) and Hieronymus Cock – The Renaissance in Print (2013, Leuven-Paris). In 1993 he was the coordinator of the seven historical exhibitions held as part of Antwerp 93‒Cultural Capital of Europe. At present, he is the initiator and driving force behind the exhibition project In Search of Utopia 1516 (2016, Leuven).

In 1995 Van der Stock received his PhD from the KU Leuven with a dissertation on the development of the printed image in the 15th- and 16th-centuries Low Countries. In 1998, based on that dissertation, he published Printing Images in Antwerp. The Introduction of Printmaking in a City: Fifteenth Century to 1585 (Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1998). Very soon afterwards, in April 1999, he was awarded the Vuurslag Prize in recognition of his work. In 1999 he was appointed Bijzonder Hoogleraar of Prints and Drawings at Leiden University. From 1998 to 2000 Van der Stock held the post of assistant curator in the Print Room of the Royal Library of Belgium (Brussels). His foremost undertakings there were the publication of The Print Collection of the Royal Library of Belgium: Early Prints (London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2002) and supervision of the conservation of the complete national collection of fifteenth-century prints. Since 2000 he has been a full-time member of the Faculty of Arts at the KU Leuven. At present he holds the position of full professor. Since 2003 he has been director of Illuminare – Centre for the Study of Medieval Art - KU Leuven

FIVE SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

J. Van der Stock, Printing Images in Antwerp. The Introduction of Printmaking in a City: Fifteenth Century to 1585. Studies in Print and Printmaking, 2 (Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1998)

J. Van der Stock, The Print Collection of the Royal Library of Belgium: Early Prints (London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2002 )

J. Van der Stock, ‘Ambiguous intentions, multiple interpretations: an other look at printed images from the sixteenth century’, Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art 52 (2002): 19-30.

L. Campbell and J. Van der Stock (eds.), Rogier van der Weyden. 1400-1464: Master of Passions (Zwolle and Leuven: Waanders and Davidsfonds, 2009)

J. Van Grieken, G. Luijten and J. Van der Stock (eds.), Hieronymus Cock. The Renaissance in Print (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013)

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