Research team
Oskar J. Rojewski – Principal Investigator (University of Silesia in Katowice)
PhD in Art History from the University Jaume I and the University of Valencia; Postdoc at the Centre for Privacy Studies at the University of Copenhagen; CINTER team at the Rey Juan Carlos University; and Fondation Périer D’Ieteren. Associated Professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice and an Associate researcher at the Instituto Moll. Centro de Investigación de Pintura Flamenca. His research interests are the migration of Flemish masters and court artists in fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Europe, the iconography of power, courtly culture, and festivities.
Contact: oskar.rojewski@us.edu.pl
Aleksandra Stanek
PhD Candidate; she is a fellow at the University of Silesia in Katowice related to the present project and a member of the Memling Research Center of the University of Gdańsk (https://mrc.ug.edu.pl/). Her research focuses on the influence of fifteenth and sixteenth-century Netherlandish art on the culture of the Iberian Peninsula and the role of women at the Spanish court. Currently, she is working on a dissertation about the creation of female art collections at the courts of the Kingdom of Castile and Aragon in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Paolo Privitera – Researcher
PhD in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Valencia; visiting researcher at the Polytechnic of Bari and University of Havana. He worked for Architects Without Frontiers and the UNESCO Chair Forum University and Cultural Heritage. His research focuses on early modern vernacular architecture, the digital humanities and database building for cultural heritage taxonomy. He is the project database manager.
Affiliated scholars:
- Eduardo Lamas (Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage KIK-IRPA, Belgium)
PhD in Art History from the Université libre de Bruxelles, and Head of the Photographic archives & Library of the KIK-IRPA, where he carries out research on seventeenth-century Spanish painting and drawing, as well as on artistic relations between Spain and the former Low Countries. He was awarded the prize of Royal Academy for Archéology and History of Art of Belgium for his work on the Flemish painter Miguel Manrique.
- José Eloy Hortal Muñoz (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)
PhD in History from the Autonomous University in Madrid, and Full Professor at the University Rey Juan Carlos, where he has been the adviser on innovational education of online studies in Humanities. From 1997 he specialised in developing a new method for studying the evolution of early modern European monarchies, particularly that of Spain, using interdisciplinary Court Studies methodology, which regards the Court as a political system. His main research interests are the political history of the Netherlands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Courts of Brussels and Madrid, the royal guards of the Spanish Habsburgs and the Royal Sites.
- Gijs Vertegen (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)
PhD in History from the Autonomous University in Madrid, and Associated Professor at the University Rey Juan Carlos. His main lines of research are Court studies, the political philosophy of the Modern Age, and historiography. Among his publications, it is worth mentioning Court and State in Liberal Historiography: A Paradigm Shift and, together with Stijn Bussels (eds.), Magnificence in the Seventeenth Century: Performing Splendour in Catholic and Protestant Contexts.