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Weixuan Li

Postdoctoral researcher

Name
Dr. W. Li
Telephone
071 5271629
E-mail
w.li@hum.leidenuniv.nl
ORCID iD
0000-0002-1180-8852

I am a post-doctoral researcher at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS). My current research focuses on using computer vision to analyse paintings of 17th-century domestic interiors. Before joining LUCAS, I conducted my doctoral research employing a spatial perspective to unravel the art and market development in 17th-century Amsterdam (2023). This research is part of the NWO research project: Virtual Interiors as Interfaces for Big Historical Data Research and my part focuses on using space (2D or 3D) as an anchor to align historical evidence to tell a story about 17th-century Amsterdam and its painters. My research interests centre around 17th-century Dutch art and market and the spatial, urban, and socio-economical circumstances in which the artworks were created. I am interested in probing the interplay between artistic invention and economic consideration, understanding artists’ choices and behaviours, and using digital means to visualize (2D and 3D) the hidden knowledge within archival sources.

More information about Weixuan Li

Fields of interest

  • Early Modern Dutch Art History
  • Digital Humanities 
  • Domestic Interiors 
  • Early Modern Material Culture

Grants and awards

Erasmus Dissertation Prize 2024
Amsterdam School of Historical Studies Dissertation Award 2023-2024

Selected publications

(Forthcoming 2025) Li. W., Painters’ Playbooks in the Art Market of Early Modern Amsterdam: A Digital Approach, Amsterdam University Press

2024  Li. W., Piccoli, C., Placing Value in Domestic Interiors: 3D Spatial Mapping of Pieter de Graeff and Jacoba Bicker’s Home Art Collection. BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review, 139(2), 4-37. DOI: https:⁠/⁠/doi.org/10.51769/bmgn-lchr.13880

2022 Li. W., Piccoli, C., ‘Boedelinventarissen als bron voor reconstructie van interieurs,’ in Alle Amsterdamse Akten, Jaarboek Amstelodamum, 2022, 144-151.

2021 Li, W., ‘A Network of Iconography: Tracing the Evolution of Iconography in History Paintings in the Dutch Golden Age’, Early Modern Low Countries, 2021 5(2), pp. 216–249. DOI: 10.51750/emlc11334

2021 Li, W., ‘Spotting specialists: A digital approach to contemporary concepts of genre and specialisation’, in Osnabrugge, M. (ed.) Questioning Pictorial Genres in Dutch Seventeenth-Century Art: Definitions, Artistic Practices, Market & Society,  Brepols Publishers, 2021 pp. 43-71. (Book available here)

2020 Li, W., ‘The Hands Behind De Lairesse’s Masterpieces: Gerard de Lairesse’s workshop practice,’ Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art 12:1 (Winter 2020). DOI: 10.5092/jhna.2020.12.1.4

2019 Li, W., ‘Innovative Exuberance: Visualizing the fluctuations in painting production in the 17th-century Northern Netherlands’, Arts, Special Issue: Art Markets and Digital Histories, 2019 8(2), 72. DOI: 10.3390/arts8020072

Postdoctoral researcher

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Centre for the Arts in Society
  • Nieuwe Media & Digitale Cultuur

Work address

Arsenaal
Arsenaalstraat 1
2311 CT Leiden
Room number A1.16

Contact

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