• Douglas Brine has taught at Trinity University since 2009. His research and teaching focus on the visual arts in northern Europe during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance with a particular emphasis on sculpture, painting, and metalwork in the Low Countries. His doctoral research was on the art of commemoration and centered on Netherlandish wall-mounted memorials (or "epitaphs") and their relation to contemporary paintings, notably those of Jan van Eyck. His current book project explores the making and meaning of brass sculpture from the Netherlands during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. A secondary field of interest is the Gothic Revival in nineteenth-century England and the work of the architect and theorist Augustus Pugin.

    Dr. Brine’s scholarship has been supported by fellowships at the Courtauld Research Forum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art. His first book Pious Memories was published by Brill in 2015; his Art Bulletin article on Van Eyck’s Van der Paele Virgin was awarded the 2015 Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize by the College Art Association.

    • Ph.D., History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
    • M.A., History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London 
    • B.A., History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London 

    Books

    • Brazen Splendors: The Art of Brass in the Burgundian Netherlands (in preparation)
    • Pious Memories. The Wall-Mounted Memorial in the Burgundian Netherlands. Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History, 13. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004288348

    Articles and Essays

    • “The Tomb of Louis of Mâle and the Materiality of Brass in the Burgundian Netherlands.” Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 88 (2025): 172–205. https://doi.org/10.1515/zkg-2025-2003
    • “Working Sculpture: The Forms and Functions of Netherlandish Brass Lecterns.” In Taking Shape: Sculpture of the Low Countries, c.1400–1600, edited by Julie Beckers, Hannah De Moor, and Ethan Matt Kavaler, 73–99. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024.
    • “Musicians and their Monuments in the Burgundian Netherlands: Some Art Historical Perspectives.” Early Music 48, no. 4 (2020): 441–63. https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caaa059
    • “‘Beautiful authorities’: Augustus W.N. Pugin and Early Netherlandish Painting.” Oud Holland 133, nos. 3–4 (2020): 180–97. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27114704
    • “‘An unrivalled brass Lectorium’: The Cloisters Lectern and the Gothic Revival in England.” Sculpture Journal 29, no. 1 (2020): 45–63. https://doi.org/10.3828/sj.2020.29.1.4
    • “Les reliefs votifs, un ensemble exceptionnel.” In La sculpture gothique à Tournai: Splendeur, ruine, vestiges, edited by Ludovic Nys and Louis-Donat Casterman, 182–211. Brussels: Fonds Mercator, 2018.
    • "Reflection and Remembrance in Jan van Eyck’s Van der Paele Virgin.” Art History 41, no. 4 (2018): 600–23. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8365.12356
    • "Jan van Eyck, Canon Joris van der Paele, and the Art of Commemoration.” The Art Bulletin 96, no. 3 (2014): 265–87. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43188881
    • "Evidence for the Forms and Usage of Early Netherlandish Memorial Paintings." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 71 (2008): 139–68. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20462780 
    • “Campin’s Contemporaries: Painting in Tournai in the Early Fifteenth Century.” In Campin in Context: Peinture et société dans la vallée de l’Escaut à l’époque de Robert Campin 1375–1445, edited by Ludovic Nys and Dominique Vanwijnsberghe, 101–12. Valenciennes: Presse universitaires de Valenciennes, 2007.

    Lower division

    • Art History I: Prehistoric to Medieval Art

    • Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages

       

    Upper division

    • Art and Power in Ancient Rome
    • Art at the Courts of Europe, c.1330–1416 
    • Art, Gender, and Patronage at the Court of Burgundy  
    • Northern Renaissance Art in the Fifteenth Century
    • Jan van Eyck and his Legacy 
    • Albrecht Dürer and his World
    • Museum Studies