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Karin Sprang is a PhD candidate at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, supervised by Prof Ingrid De Smet and Prof David Lines, and funded by Midlands4Cities (AHRC). Her doctoral project focuses on the use and production of northern-European alba amicorum in early modern Italy. This highly interdisciplinary study combines approaches and topics from art history, book history, cultural history, and early modern mobility studies in order to map out the networks of travellers, artists, and artisans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This research has so far taken her to libraries and archives across the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Italy. In January and February 2024, she will continue her research in Germany as a Weimar Fellow at the Klassik Stiftung Weimar.

Previously, Karin has completed MAs in Culture of the European Renaissance (University of Warwick) and Curating Art & Cultures (University of Amsterdam), as well as a year-long placement as curator-in-training at the Mauritshuis in The Hague.