”Primavera” exhibition by artist-in-residence Allison Malinsky
Get ready for an explosion of colour! Our artist-in-residence, Allison Malinsky, is about to unveil her vibrant exhibition, showcasing paintings, drawings, and even a botanical surprise!
International Scholar-in-residence programme
Intended for renowned researchers in the humanities. The suitable candidate has an excellent international reputation in a field that matches our research profile.
Minor Italian Art & History in Rome (KNIR) and Florence (NIKI) in 2024-2025
This Minor program offers the opportunity of working with a large variety of methodologies in order to understand present-day Italy through its historical developments in a profoundly cross-disciplinary context.
Summer Course Leonardo | The tension between theory & practice (5 – 16 August 2024)
An in-depth study of the drawings, paintings, and writings of Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci 1452-Amboise, France 1519). This course seeks to define the relationship between Leonardo’s development as a painter and his scientific research.
NWIB Summer School 2024 (Ba): The birth of the modern anatomical illustration
Apply for the NWIB Summer School at the NIKI (July 22 – August 2, 2024) which is devoted to “The birth of the modern anatomical illustration”.
NWIB Visiting Professors Programme – Call 2024/2025
The NWIB Visiting Professors Programme offers assistant professors, associate professors and full professors at NWIB participating universities a unique opportunity to work undisturbed in an inspiring and stimulating environment.
Hybrid lecture: “Perugino and the Management of Styles: ‘Andrea d’Assisi’ Reconsidered” on November 7, 2023 at 6PM
On behalf of the Director of the Netherlands Interuniversity Institute for Art History (NIKI), Michael W. Kwakkelstein, we have the pleasure to invite you to the lecture by our scholar-in-residence, Takuma Ito (Associate Professor, Renaissance Art History, Kyushu University, Japan), entitled “Perugino and the Management of Styles: ‘Andrea d’Assisi’ Reconsidered”.
Dutch Alumni Event in Rome & Milan (8-9 November 2023)
The collaborating Dutch universities: Leiden University, Utrecht University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam), along with the Dutch University Institute for Art History in Florence (NIKI) invite alumni from these universities to attend an evening of academic discussion and networking.
Hybrid lecture: “Christ’s Petrified Blood – Heliotrope Cameos in Early Modern Europe and Beyond” on October 5, 2023 at 6PM
This lecture explores the functions, iconography, and symbolic meanings of heliotrope in light of current discourses on the materiality of stones in early modern Europe – and beyond.
Hybrid conference ”Artists’ Workshop Practice in the Renaissance” on 20-21 September 2023
The conference focuses on the Italian Renaissance artists’ workshop practice. While many scholars consider the work made in artists’ workshops and much recent scholarship seeks to attribute the outputs of the assistants of well-known painters and sculptors, there are still many questions concerning quotidian life in the workshop that have attracted little scholarly attention, and about which we know very little – or practically nothing.
