Elizabeth den Hartog holds a post as associate professor at Leiden University (since 1986), teaching art and architecture until 1600. From 2001-2012 she was also director of the Castle Foundation Holland and Zeeland. Her main research interest is in medieval art and architecture, a subject on which she has published widely, in the Netherlands and abroad. As guest-keeper of the Maastricht Bonnefanten Museum she wrote a monograph on the Romanesque sculpture of the churches in Maastricht, which was the basis for the exhibition "The Road to Paradise" in 2003-2004. For the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (Amersfoort) she studied the medieval sculpture in the church of Doorn (many authors), the architectural sculpture of the church of St Eusebius in Arnhem (with Ronald Glaudemans), on the cathedral of Utrecht and on the now-lost church of Kerkdriel (2011-2016). She also does advisory work.

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Fields of interest

• architectural sculpture
• medieval relics and reliquaries
• graffiti up to 1600

Research

Her present work (2024) includes
- building inscriptions before 1600 (publication due early 2025)
- graffiti in the Netherlands before 1800 (publication of the graffiti in the St Bavo Church in Haarlem due early 2025)
- a study of chickens and cocks in the art before 1600 (with Mats Dijkrent and Philip Muijtjens).
- a study of the early sixteenth-century town hall statues of Veere

Selected Publications

Raptors. On the iconography of an enigmatic capital in the nave of Beverley Minster, The Antiquaries Journal 102, 2022, 188-205.

Plants, beasts and a barefoot cleric, in: K. Ambrose, M. Syrstad Andås and G. Murray (eds.), Urnes Stave Church and its Global Romanesque Connections, Studies in the Visual Culture of the Middle Ages 18, Brepols (Turnhout) 2021, 398-418.

Pieter de Hooch's window shutter with the Habsburg Emperor Charles V (1661), Oud Holland 2022-4, volume 135, 225-236.

Salvaging the past: relocating inscriptions in post-reformation Utrecht. Meijer E. & Pollmer-Schmidt A. (Eds.), Art & Catholicism in the Dutch Republic. Art & Catholicism in the Dutch Republic 22 February 2018 - 22 February 2018. Frankfurt 2023, 225-237.

On the meaning of Gargoyles, Bulletin du Centre d'Études Médiévales Auxerre. Hors-série (13) 2023: 1-18.

Heer, ik heb de luister van uw huis behartigd. De bouwprojecten van abt Wiric van Stapel en de abdij van Sint-Truiden, in: R. Dreesen (red.), Stone Stories. Als stenen konden spreken. Abt Wirc van Sint-Truiden als bouwheer tijdens de laatromaanse renaissance, Sint-Truiden 2024, 31-55.

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