Simen K. Nielsen

A PhD Candidate in History, my background is in the History of Art (BA and MA), where my emphasis has been early modern Europe in general and the sixteenth century in particular. My MA thesis explored the religious imagery of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio in connection with post-Tridentine spirituality and visual theology. Caravaggio's "Crucifixion of St. Peter" became the nexus and optic through which I traced a revitalization of a palaeochristian poetics - one I approached through the notion of the "iconic" and the visual matrix of the icon.



An Aker Scholar at Cambridge, my degree is supported by Aker Scholarship.



I am supervised by Prof. Alexandra Walsham.