Information
Member of CODART since 2022
Areas of specialization
- 17th-century Dutch painting
- 16th- and 17th-century Flemish painting
- Sensory art history and sensory museology
- Iconography
Exhibitions curated since 1999
Selected publications
2024
‘The Delights and Displeasures of Smell in Dutch Genre Scenes’
Essay in Delights of the Senses: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and Life, edited by E. Nogrady and D. Shewchuk, catalogue of an exhibition held in Albany (Albany Institute of History & Art) in 2024
Albany (Albany Institute of History & Art) 2024
‘“The Abduction of Europa” by Paulus Potter: A Mythological Painting Rediscovered’
J. Schilder, M. Lydon, L. Marx, N. Macro, and A. Vandivere
Article in The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 166, No. 1456, 2024, pp.34–41
2023
‘Rachel Ruysch’s “Vase of Flowers with an Ear of Corn”‘
Article in Art Herstory, 8 November 2023
‘“A Thousand Fine Concoctions”: Costumed Heads’
Essay in Turning Heads: Rubens, Rembrandt and Vermeer, edited by N. Van Hout, K. Bulckens, and L. Marx, catalogue of an exhibition held in Antwerp (KMSKA) and Dublin (National Gallery of Ireland) in 2023–2024
Veurne (Hannibal) 2023
2022
‘Visualising, Perceiving, and Interpreting Smell in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art’
L. Marx (PhD thesis)
Cambridge (University of Cambridge) 2022
‘Making Whiffstory: A Contemporary Recreation of an Early Modern Scent for Perfumed Gloves’
L. Marx, S. C. Ehrich, I. Leemans, C. Bembibre, W. Tullett, Odeuropa, IFF, and Museum Ulm
Article in American Historical Review, Vol. CXXVII, No. 2, June 2022, pp.799–829
‘Jumping the Broom: A Common-Law Wedding Custom’s Bristling Visual Satires’
Essay in Changing Satire: Transformations and Continuities in Europe, 1600–1830, edited by C. Rosengren, P. Sivefors, R. WingÃ¥rdÂ
Manchester (Manchester University Press) 2022
2021
‘Odours in Art – Depicting the Invisible’; ‘Smell and Health’; ‘Odours from Overseas’; ‘Perfume and Books of Secrets’
Essays in Fleeting – Scents in Colour, edited by A. van Suchtelen, catalogue of an exhibition held in The Hague (Mauritshuis) in 2021
Zwolle (Waanders) 2021
2018
‘A Boy with Tobacco’
Essay in Michaelina Wautier 1604–1689: Glorifying a Forgotten Talent, edited by K. Van der Stighelen, catalogue of an exhibition held in Antwerp (Rubenshuis and Museum aan de Stroom) in 2018
Kontich (BAI Publishers) 2018