Oliver Kik

Oliver Kik studied art history in Ghent and at Utrecht University and recently defended his Ph.D in art history at both Leuven and Utrecht Universities on the role of Netherlandish visual artists in architectural design practice, and the dissemination of geometrical knowledge in the Low Countries during the first half of the sixteenth century. He has written on the ornament prints in the oeuvre of Lucas van Leyden (2011), and on representations of antique ornament in the Low Countries during the first half of the sixteenth century. His research interests include early print culture, architectural drawings, history of and meaning of ornament and transfer of knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries. He is currently working as a scientific researcher at the KIK-IRPA, the Belgian Royal Institute of Cultural Heritage.