Sven Dupré
Dep. Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis - Kunstgeschiedenis
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Sven Dupré is Professor and Chair of History of Art, Science and Technology at Utrecht University, and Professor of History of Art, Science and Technology at the University of Amsterdam. He is the Scientific Director of the project ‘Technique in the Arts: Concepts, Practices, Expertise, 1500-1950’, supported by a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant. Previously he was Professor of History of Knowledge at the Freie Universität and Director of the Research Group ‘Art and Knowledge in Premodern Europe’ at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. In Spring 2015 he was Robert H. Smith Scholar in Residence for Renaissance Sculpture in Context at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. His research has been supported by visiting fellowships at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) of the University of Cambridge, at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and at the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science at the University of Sydney.
Research Interest
History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities
Publications
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Dupré, Sven (2016). Die Sichtbarkeit und Unsichtbarkeit von Körperwissen in der Kodifikation der Künste in der frühen Neuzeit. Paragrana: Internationale Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie, 25 (1), (pp. 110-129).
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Baker, Tawrin, Dupré, Sven, Kusukawa, Sachiko & Leonhard, Karin (2016). Color Worlds: Introduction. In Tawrin Baker, Sven Dupré, Sachiko Kusukawa & Karin Leonhard (Eds.), Early Modern Color Worlds (pp. 1-18). Leiden and Boston: Brill.
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Dupré, Sven (2016). Book review: Richard Yeo, Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Isis, 107 (4), (pp. 839-840).
