Caroline van Eck

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Caroline Alexandra van Eck FBA (born 22 July 1959) is a Dutch art historian and academic, specialising in the art and architecture of the early modern period. Since 2016, she has been Professor of Art History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. She was Professor of Art and Architecture before 1800 at Leiden University from 2006 to 2016, and previously taught at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the University of Groningen. She was the 2017 Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

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Honours

In March 2014, van Eck was awarded the 2013 Descartes-Huygens Prize by the French Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques . [6]

In December 2014, van Eck was appointed a Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre National du Mérite by the President of France. [7] She was awarded the Grand Prix du Rayonnement de la Littérature et Culture Françaises by the Académie française in 2015. [8]

In 2020 van Eck was elected a fellow of the Academia Europaea [9] and of the British Academy. [10]

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References

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  7. "Aafke Hulk et Caroline van Eck : Ordre National du Mérite (1er décembre 2014, Résidence de France)". Frankrijk in Nederland/ La France aux Pays-Bas (in French). 3 December 2014. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  8. "Discours sur les prix littéraires 2015". Académie française (in French). Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  9. "The Department congratulates Professor Caroline van Eck on her election to the Academia Europaea". 28 May 2020.
  10. "The British Academy welcomes 86 new Fellows from across the humanities and social sciences".