Alexander Dencher
Guest
- Name
- Dr. A.R. Dencher
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- a.r.dencher@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Alexander Dencher is a guest university lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.
More information about Alexander Dencher
Leiden Art History Blog
About Alexander Dencher
Alexander Dencher studied art history and archeology in Leiden and Paris. He wrote his PhD dissertation on the triumphal entry of William III into The Hague in 1691 under the supervision of Caroline van Eck and Colette Nativel. Before coming to Leiden, he worked in Paris as a lecturer at the Sorbonne and as a curatorial assistant in the department of prints and drawings in the Musée du Louvre. He is currently also an assistant curator in the department of decorative arts at the Rijksmuseum, where he is helping to prepare an exhibition on design drawings that will open in late 2022.
Alexander studies the decorative arts and court culture in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Europe and has published several articles on these topics. He’s currently working on a book project of his dissertation, tentatively entitled William’s Triumphs. He is a member of the board of the Association Hendrick de Keyser and the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Dutch Institute for Art History in Florence.
His research has been supported by the Ministère de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the Johan Huizingafonds and the Museums, Collections and Society programme at Leiden University.
Fields of interest
- History of decorative arts
- History of architecture
- History of patronage and collections
- History of prints and drawings
PhD Supervision
Teaching
- Art History
- Arts, Media and Society
Guest
- Faculty of Humanities
- Centre for the Arts in Society
- KG Architectuurgeschiedenis
- Dencher A.R. (21 January 2021), Enlightened Spaces: The eighteenth-century interior and the study of decorative arts at Leiden University. Leiden Arts in Society Blog. Leiden : LUCAS. [blog entry].
- Dencher A.R. (2021), Portland Plasters and Interiors for Display. In: O’ Farrell H. & Keurs P. ter (Eds.), Museums, Collections and Society Yearbook 2020. Leiden : Sidestone Press. 101-107.
- Dencher A.R. (2021), A noble business: Susanna d'Aumale and the French upholsterer Adrien Fievez dit de Malines at Kasteel Hardenbroek, Virtus : bulletin van de Werkgroep Adelsgeschiedenis 28: 111-130.
- Dencher A.R. & Castelijns I. (2021), Headboards, valances and curtains: Daniel Marot and the Dutch pronkbed, c.1690-1730, Desipientia. Kunsthistorisch Tijdschrift. 29(1): 16-21.
- Dencher A.R. (2 September 2020), Commemorating conquest: The triumphal entry of William III of Orange, King of England, into The Hague in 1691 (Dissertatie. Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS), Faculty of Humanities , Leiden University). Supervisor(s): Eck C. van & Nativel C.
- Dencher A.R. (2020), Daniel Marot (1661-1752) and the 'painted staircase' in the United Provinces. In: Hoppe S., Karner H. & Laß H. (Eds.), Deckenmalerei um 1700 in Europa. Höfe und Residenzen. Munich: Hirmer. 211-225.
- Dencher A.R. (2017), The triumphal medals of William III of Orange and the histoire métallique of Louis XIV of France in the wake of the Glorious Revolution, Jaarboek voor Munt- en Penningkunde (104): 102-135.
- Dencher A.R. (2016), ‘Les meilleures architectes du roi’: een onbekende brief uit 1628 over de vroege bouwperiode van het Huis Honselaarsdijk, Bulletin KNOB 115(2): 80-99.
- Dencher A.R. (2015), “The Camaïeu Print in Seventeenth-Century Paris: On the origins of multi-tonal printmaking in France”. In: Stijnman A. & Savage E. (Eds.), Printing Colour 1400-1700 : History, Techniques, Functions and Receptions.. Leiden: Brill. 180-189.
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