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    Hans J Van Miegroet

  • Hans J Van Miegroet

  • Professor and Department Chair
  • Art, Art History & Visual Studies
  • 115B East Duke Building
  • Campus Box 90764
  • Phone: +1 919 684 2504, +1 919 684 2224
  • Fax: (919) 681-7887
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  • Specialties

    • Early Modern Art
    • Visual Studies/Visual Culture

  • Research Summary

    Art & Markets; Art, Law & Markets

  • Research Description

    Hans J. Van Miegroet was trained at the Higher Institute for Art History and Archaeology of the University of Ghent (Belgium) and received his Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was trained at the Higher Institute for Art History and Archaeology of the University of Ghent (Belgium) and received his Ph.D. at the University of California. He is engaged in exploring Visual Studies at the interface of the humanities, social sciences, law and the sciences. He has adopted a scientific collaborative model to conducting research on emerging Art Markets, legal questions related to copyright and cultural heritage and visual culture as a commercial pursuit. This approach has made it possible to create, and sustain, a variety of new research strategies and modes of interpretation, attractive to museum professionals as well as to scholars and students from the humanities, law and the social sciences. His publications include books on Konrad Witz and Gerard David, and co-authored studies on Mapping Markets for European Paintings in the Early Modern Period (2006), “History of Art Markets,” in Handbook on the Economics of Art and Culture, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam-London-Tokyo, 2006, pp. 69-122; “The Antwerp-Mechelen Production and Export Complex,” (co-author Neil De Marchi), in Essays in Memory of John Michael Montias, Amsterdam, 2007, pp. 133-147; “Copies fantômes la culture imitative au début de l’époque moderne en Europe,” in L'estampe, un art multiple à la portée de tous, Villeneuve d’Ascq, 2008, pp. 47-64. “The Rise of Dealer-Auctioneers. Information and Transparency in Markets for Netherlandish Paintings,” (co-author Neil De Marchi), in Art Market and connoisseurship in the Dutch Golden Age, Amsterdam University Press: Amsterdam, 2008, pp. 149-174; “Antwerp Dealers’ Invasions of the Lille Market,” (co-author Neil De Marchi), in Art Auctions and Dealers. The Dissemination of Nether¬landish Paintings during the Ancien Régime, Brepols: Turnhout, 2009, pp. 43-58; and “Flemish Textile Trade and New Imagery in Colonial Mexico (1524-1646),” (co-author Neil De Marchi) in: Jonathan Brown, Painting for the Kingdoms, Fomento Cultural BanaMex: Mexico City, 2010; and “Brueghel in Paris,” (2011). He was awarded the Trinity College Distinguished Teaching Award.

  • Areas of Interest

    Art & Markets
    Art, Law & Markets
    Visual Studies
    Early Modern Art

  • Education

      • PhD,
      • University of California, Santa Barbara,
      • 1988
      • Licenciate,
      • Higher Institute of History of Art and Archaeology, University of Ghent,
      • 1983
      • MFA,
      • Higher Institute of the Arts, Ghent

  • Awards, Honors and Distinctions

      • French American Cultural Exchange,
      • Government République Française,
      • September, 2007-2010
      • Emergence of Art Markets in Europe, 1300-1800,
      • Centre National des Recherches Scientifiques (CNRS # 8529),
      • January, 2007-2010
      • Research Fellow and Invited Professor Institut Superieur de l'Histoire de l'Art (INHA) Paris,
      • Institut National de l'Histoire de l'Art (INHA), Paris-1, France,
      • 2005

  • Selected Publications

      • Hans J. Van Miegroet and Neil de Marchi.
      • Mapping Markets for Paintings in Early Modern Europe 1450-1750.
      • 2006.
      • Hans J. Van Miegroet and Neil De Marchi.
      • "Flemish Textile Trade and New Imagery in Colonial Mexico (1524-1646)."
      • Painting for the Kingdoms.
      • Ed. Jonathan Brown.
      • Fomento Cultural BanaMex, Mexico City,
      • Mexico City: 2010.
      • 878-923.
      • Hans J. Van Miegroet and Neil De Marchi.
      • "Antwerp Dealers’ Invasions of the Lille Market (17th Century)."
      • Art Auctions and Dealers. The Dissemination of Netherlandish Paintings during the Ancien Régime.
      • Ed. Dries Lyna, Filip Vermeylen and Hans Vlieghe.
      • Brepols Publishers, Turnhout,
      • 2009.
      • 43-58.
      • Hans J. Van Miegroet.
      • "Copies fantômes la culture imitative au début de l’époque moderne en Europe."
      • L'estampe, un art multiple à la portée de tous.
      • Ed. S. Raux.
      • Presse Universitaire Lille,
      • 2008.
      • 47-64.
      • Hans J. Van Miegroet and Neil De Marchi.
      • "History of Art Markets."
      • Handbook on the Economics of Art and Culture.
      • Ed. Victor Ginsburgh and David Throsby.
      • Elsevier Science, Amsterdam-London-Tokyo,
      • 2006.
      • 69-122.
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  • PhD Students

    • Katherine de Vos Devine
    • Hillary Smith
    • Sandra Van Ginhoven
    • Kevin Kornegay
      • 2003 - present
    • Robert Mayhew
      • 2003 - 2011
      • Thesis: Law, Commerce, and the Rise of New Imagery in Antwerp, 1500-1600