Koenraad Jonckheere is a professor of Northern Renaissance and Baroque Art at Ghent University. He studied History and Art History in Leuven and earned his PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 2005. His research focuses on the art markets of the 17th and 18th centuries, as well as 16th-century Antwerp history and portrait painting. His published works include The Auction of King William’s Paintings, Adriaen Thomasz. Key and Willem Key, Antwerp Art after Iconoclasm, and Another History of Art.
In 2013, he curated an exhibition on the 16th-century Romanist Michiel Coxcie at Museum M in Leuven. Jonckheere has received the Jan van Gelder Prize for art history, is a laureate of the Royal Academy of Science and the Arts of Belgium, and has been a member of the Young Academy and is a member of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences.
From 2014 to 2019, he served as Director of Publications at the Centrum Rubenianum, where he oversaw the Corpus Rubenianum project. His upcoming book Instagrammable, due in Fall 2024, explores what art history can teach us about social media, and he is currently finishing his manuscript Rubens’ Questies: Religion, paragone and the ontology of painting which will be published in 2025.
