Kirsten van Tunen is an art historian specialising in the interaction between art, architecture and science in the early modern period, with a particular focus on the exchange of ideas and visual culture between the Netherlands and England. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Art History from the University of Amsterdam (cum laude, 2024) and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Curating Art and Culture: Arts of the Netherlands (UvA). As an intern at the Huygens Institute within the NWO project Visualising the Unknown, she is researching sixteenth-century representations of the micro world and their role in early modern knowledge production.
