LOCI
Place des Sciences 1/L6.05.01
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Mats Dijkdrent
Aspirant FNRS
Mats Dijkdrent has two bachelor degrees in History and Art History, as well as a research master’s degree in History: Europe 1000-1800 from Leiden University. During his studies, he followed courses in the Dutch, English, Classics, Archaeology, Linguistics, Near Eastern and South Asian departments besides doing internships at the National museum of Antiquities and the Huygens Institute for Dutch history. He also spent a semester at St. Andrews University in Scotland. In 2021, Mats completed a MPhil in the history of Art and Architecture at Cambridge University in England. Since October 2021, he is working on a PhD project that focuses on the uses and manifestations of Magnificence in sixteenth-century Antwerp, Rouen and Nurnberg. In June 2022 he received national funding for this project which is hosted by the Catholic University Louvain in Belgium.
CV
2021-2025 PhD in Architecture at UCLouvain (Belgium)
2020-2021 MPhil in the History of Art and Architecture at Cambridge University
2018-2020 ResMA in History 1000-1800 at Leiden University
2015-2019 BA in Art History at Leiden University
2014-2018 BA in History at Leiden University
Awards & Scholarships
2022 Fond de la Recherche Scientifique: A grant financing four years of PhD research
2020 Prins Bernard Cultuurfonds scholarship: A grant for an architecture MPhil at Cambridge € 15.000
2020 VSBfonds scholarship: A grant for studying at Cambridge € 7.000
2020 Dr. Hendrik Mullerfonds scholarship: A grant for studying at Cambridge € 4.000
2019 Erasmus+ Exchange grant: A financial compensation for the semester at St. Andrews € 1.284
2019 NIKI GWO scholarship: A grant to facilitate art historical research in Florence € 875
- Diploma
Year Label Educational Organization 2020 Research Master History Leiden University
Magnificentia, a virtue concerning the decorum surrounding large expenditure, is employed by many scholars of Renaissance Italy to interpret patronage. However, research on the uses and manifestations of magnificence in regions across the Alps is still lacking. My PhD explores how, in late 15th- and early 16th-century Antwerp, Rouen, and Nuremberg, different manifestations and uses of magnificentia interacted with and related to a given political context. It does so by studying how magnificentia was discussed in texts; How it was performed in temporary events; And how it materialized in buildings. This three-fold approach allows me to study different forms of expressing magnificentia as well as the interactions between the different media. By comparing the three cities with each other, the project also tries to identify the conditions that shaped, influenced and restricted the expression of magnificence in relation to urban politics.
2022
Dijkdrent, Mats. Genezende architectuur; Traditie en medische innovatie in een Leids 16de-eeuws pest- en dolhuis. In: Holland Historisch Tijdschrift, Vol. 54, no.4, p. 7 (2022) (Soumis).
2021
Dijkdrent, Mats. The Lothar Crystal as the relic of saint Eligius. In: Peregrinations; Journal of Medieval Art & Architecture, Vol. 7, no.3, p. 26 (2021) (Soumis).
2019
Dijkdrent, Mats. De autoriteit van de Oudheid. In: Frons; Blad voor Leidse classici, Vol. 39, no.3, p. 4 (2019) (Soumis).
2019
Dijkdrent, Mats. Een versteende traditie; Een essay over de spanning tussen medische theorieën in middeleeuwse lapidaria en de geneeskundige praktijk. In: Skript Historisch Tijdschrift, Vol. 41, no.2, p. 15 (2019) (Soumis).
2019
Dijkdrent, Mats. Geesteswetenschappers gezocht!. In: Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, Vol. 132, no.1, p. 2 (2019) (Soumis).
2023
Dijkdrent, Mats. Architectural descriptions as mirrors for good governance in 16th-century Antwerp. Workshop on Good Governance in the Late Medieval City (1200-1600) (Utrecht, 01/02/2023).
2023
Dijkdrent, Mats. Joyous Entries and Magnificence. International Medieval Congress (Leeds, du 03/07/2023 au 06/07/2023).
2023
Dijkdrent, Mats. Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle’s Ethics as a lieu for Architectural Thinking. British Archaeological Association (London, 29/11/2023).
2023
Dijkdrent, Mats. Second-hand Magnificence; Transmitting Magnificence Back-and-Forth between Individuals and Objects in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp. RSA (San Juan, du 09/03/2023 au 11/03/2023).
2023
Dijkdrent, Mats. Transmitting magnificentia; Magnificentia through time and media. GEMCA Monthly seminar (Louvain-la-neuve, 26/01/2023).
2022
Dijkdrent, Mats. De gelaagdheid van magnificentia. Medievistendag (Amsterdam, 04/11/2022).
2022
Dijkdrent, Mats. Seeing and imagining architecture by ‘the other’ among 16th-century humanists. International conference: Cross-cultural entanglements in the Mediterranean and beyond, 1200-1600 (Cambridge, 29/10/2022).
2022
Dijkdrent, Mats. The currency of magnificence during the Landjuweel in Antwerp. Masterclass Urban Space (Groningen, du 09/06/2022 au 10/06/2022).
2021
Dijkdrent, Mats. Healing through Space: Plague and Mental Health Institutions in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries. The 13th International Network for the History of Hospitals conference (Lisbon , du 26/05/2021 au 28/05/2021).
2021
Dijkdrent, Mats. The Influence of the Cellites on 16th-Century Hospital Architecture. International Medieval Congress (Leeds, du 05/07/2021 au 08/07/2021).