HANNE SCHONKEREN

In 2018, I obtained a bachelor's degree in goldsmithing and jewelry design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp). Afterward, I studied art history and archaeology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (2018 - 2020) and dedicated my master's thesis to the remaking of an early medieval fibula with filigree decoration. Currently, I am conducting a four-year Ph.D. project, funded by the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), investigating sixteenth-century Antwerp gold and silversmithing, at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. This project is supervised by dr. Pieter Martens (VUB), dr. Tine Meganck (VUB) and dr. Sven Dupré (UU). I am a member of the research group Histories of Art, Architecture and Visual Culture (VISU)... This project investigates the products of sixteenth-century Antwerp gold and silversmithing through the innovative method of Reconstruction, Replication,