Research Interests: 16th & 17th Century Art, Painting Materials and Techniques, Apprenticeship and Collaboration, Workshop Architecture, Art Theory

Koen Bulckens received his BA (2010) and MA (2011) in Art History and Archeology at the Free University of Brussels. He minored in philosophy and graduated with a thesis that contrasted the notions of authorship in the historiographies of Rubens and Rembrandt. Koen worked at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp as a research curator (2011-2015), where he wrote a volume in the Corpus Rubenianum, a catalog raisonné of Rubens’ oeuvre. At Brown, Koen will investigate Rubens’ workshop from a variety of angles. His research interests include painting materials and techniques, apprenticeship and collaboration, workshop architecture, and art theory.