Art History and Art Conservation
Queen's UniversityRon Spronk
Professor
Ph.D. (Groningen)
spronkr@queensu.ca
(613)533 6000 x78288
Research Interests
Technical Art History, Early Netherlandish Painting
Biography
Ron Spronk is a specialist in the technical examination of paintings. From 1994 to 2007 he worked in different capacities at the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge, Massachusetts, most recently as Research Curator. He has published widely on the technical examination of paintings and he co-curated award-winning exhibitions on Mondrian’s Transatlantic Paintings and on Early Netherlandish diptychs. In 2010, he coordinated the technical documentation of the Ghent Altarpiece and he is currently a member of the team that is studying the oeuvre of Hieronymus Bosch. He also teaches part-time at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
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Recent Publications
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All by Himself? Remarks on painting technique and attributions in regard to Hieronymus Bosch Ron Spronk, Nijmegen 2011 |
Prayers and Portraits; Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych John Hand, Catherine Metzger, and Ron Spronk, Washington D.C. , 2006 |
| Recent Developments in the Technical Examination of Early Netherlandish Painting: Methodology, Limitations, and Perspectives Molly Faries and Ron Spronk (eds.), Cambridge, MA and Turnhout , 2003 |