Dr. Elsje van Kessel
Dr. Elsje van Kessel focuses on the viewing, use, and display of early modern art. She completed her Ph.D. at Leiden University, the Netherlands (2011), and wrote The Lives of Paintings: Presence, Agency and Likeness in Venetian Art of the Sixteenth-Century (De Gruyter, 2017). She has published articles in Renaissance Studies, the Journal of the History of Collections, Studiolo, and Art History.
