Koenraad Jonckheere

Koenraad Jonckheere (born 5 May, 1975) is a Belgian art historian, academic, and author. He is professor of Northern Renaissance and Baroque art at Ghent University. His scholarship links the study of early modern art to contemporary visual culture, using modern technologies and present-day social concerns to reassess Old Master painting, attribution, portraiture, and spectatorship.

Early life and education Jonckheere was born in Izegem, Belgium, in 1975. He studied history and art history at KU Leuven and received his PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 2005.

Academic career Jonckheere is a professor at Ghent University, where he teaches and researches Northern Renaissance and Baroque art. In his study Images of Stone, he examined the material and conceptual status of images during sixteenth-century image debates. His earlier scholarship also includes work on artists such as Peter Paul Rubens and Adriaen Thomasz. Key.

Public scholarship and media Alongside his academic writing, Jonckheere has published and appeared in formats aimed at a broader readership, including interviews, podcasts, and general-audience books on the history of art.

Several of these appearances present his work as drawing connections between historical image cultures and contemporary forms of media, especially social media and digital visuality. Coverage in De Morgen and The Art Newspaper described the book as relating techniques and habits of seeing in historical art to the visual logic of Instagram and contemporary online culture. Another History of Art: 2500 Years of European Art (2020; English translation announced in 2021)