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Dr Joost Joustra

  • Visiting

Howard and Roberta Ahmanson Fellow in Art and Religion (The National Gallery, London)

Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Theology & Religious Studies .

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Joost Joustra is The Howard and Roberta Ahmanson Research Curator at the National Gallery and a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Theology & Religious Studies at King’s College London. In 2020, he curated the exhibition Sin at the National Gallery and authored the accompanying book, Sin: The Art of Transgression, exploring how sin has been depicted in art for centuries. At King’s, he teaches on the Christianity & the Arts MA. Previously, Joost was the Sackler Research Forum Postdoctoral Fellow at The Courtauld Institute of Art, where he also wrote his doctoral thesis titled ‘Pictorial Space and Sacred Subject Matter in Florentine Painting, 1425-1466’.