Charlotte Rulkens is an art historian specialized in Dutch 17th century painting. Prior to her appointment at Vrije Universiteit, Charlotte worked as a curator at the Mauritshuis in the Hague where she contributed to various exhibitions and catalogues such as Slow Food: Still lifes of the Golden Age, National Trust: Dutch painting from British Country Houses and In Full Bloom. She furthermore curated the exhibition Rembrandt and the Mauritshuis and published about an eighteenth Century planetarium that is part of the Six Collection in Amsterdam. Charlotte held traineeships at the curatorial departments of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam and the Frick Collection, New York. She obtained her BA in Art History and her MA Curating Arts and Cultures from the University of Amsterdam. Charlotte's research interests entail still life painting, collecting history, attribution research, methodology, technical art history and Rembrandt.
