Caro Verbeek

Caro Verbeek (b 1980) is an internationally-acclaimed art historian and academic. Her PhD project ‘In Search of Lost Scents’ received widespread press coverage. In the 2017 exhibition ‘Aromatic Art (Re-)constructed’ visitors were able to smell the Battle of Waterloo, an 18th-century canal house, medieval prayer nuts, and Futurist and Surrealist olfactory works of art.

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Verbeek went on to create olfactory tours for the Rijksmuseum, Van Abbemuseum, Bible Museum, Amsterdam Museum. Verbeek teaches at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, is a member of the EU research programme ODEUROPA and works as a curator at the Kunstmuseum in The Hague.

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On the nose

As an art history student, Caro Verbeek, nicknamed ‘Ringo’ at school because of her own magnificent specimen, came into contact with an enormous variety of beautiful noses: large and small, straight, curved, flat and pointed. Historical research shows that in the past artists often accentuated larger noses. Verbeek demonstrates thematically how much our aesthetic judgement depends on cultural circumstances of which we are often barely aware.

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