‘Preaching on Vision and Memory in Early Renaissance Florence: The Funeral Sermon for Baldassare Costa and his Tomb in the Baptistery’ by Dr Philip Muijtens.
Philip Muijtjens is an Art historian and Classicist with an interest in medieval and Renaissance art and thought. He studied History of Art and Classics at Leiden University, followed by an MPhil in History of Art at the University of Cambridge. Philip completed his Ph.D in History of Art in 2024 at the University of Cambridge. His doctoral research focused on the social culture around funerary monuments in Italy in c.1300-1530. In November 2024, Philip joined the Université catholique de Louvain as a postdoctoral researcher. Philip has published on various aspects of the intellectual and artistic culture of fifteenth-century Europe, most recently on Rogier van der Weyden, and on Cardinal Bessarion and his chapel at Santi Apostoli, Rome. In addition, Philip was also a part of a range of digitization initiatives of written sources and of other research projects, most recently one on the medieval archives of the Venerable English College in Rome, with generous funding from The Yorkist History Trust.
Image: courtesy Dr Philip Muijtens
