Quentin Buvelot

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Quentin Buvelot
Born1969 (age 5455)
Utrecht, the Netherlands
Alma mater University of Utrecht
Occupation(s)art historian, author, curator

Quentin Buvelot (born 1969 in Utrecht) is a Dutch art historian. [1] He works as the chief curator at the Mauritshuis in The Hague, and is regarded as a specialist in the painting of the Dutch Golden Age. [2] [3] [4]

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Biograpahy

Buvelot studied art history and archaeology at Utrecht University from 1987 to 1993. Subsequently, he worked there as a junior lecturer in 1994. From June 1994 to May 1995, he served as a guest curator for the Koninklijk Paleis in Amsterdam, where he prepared an exhibition on the architect Jacob van Campen. From 1996 to 1998, he worked for the Parisian Fondation Custodia, where he compiled a catalog of Dutch and Flemish paintings in the Musée Fabre in Montpellier.

Buvelot has been a curator at the Mauritshuis in The Hague since 1996. Since then, he has organized numerous exhibitions, often in collaboration with art historians from international partner museums. [5] [6] He has published numerous texts on these and other topics. He is a board member of the art foundation Vereniging Rembrandt, a board member of the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, and chair of the program committee of CODART, an international network of curators of Dutch and Flemish art. [7]

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