| Position in department | Careers and Employability Officer |
| Staff position | Lecturer (part-time) |
| E-mail | povedi (non Essex users should add @essex.ac.uk) |
| Telephone | 3006 (non Essex users should add 01206-87 to the beginning of this number) |
| Room | 6.139 |
| Biography | Deborah Povey specialises in the art of the Low Countries of the 15th to 17th centuries, with a particular interest in the question of realism and symbolism, and in the artists Jan van Eyck, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Jan Steen. Other interests include Franco-Flemish tapestries (researched as British Academy Research Fellow in the Department between 1995 and 1998), art at the court of Burgundy and the ecclesiastical architecture of England and France. She is co-author (with Neil Cox) of A Picasso Bestiary (1995) and has published articles on Dutch landscape and garden design and Pieter Bruegel's series of the months. |
| Research interests |
- Art and Architecture of Burgundy, Flanders, France and the Netherlands c. 1440-1675, in particular regarding questions of realism and symbolism, the secular and the sacred
- A particular interest in the artists Claus Sluter, Jan van Eyck, Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Jan Steen
- Romanesque and Gothic Sculpture
- Franco-Flemish Tapestry to c. 1650
- The interplay between verse, drama and the visual arts in the Early Modern Period
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