Bouk Wierda, MA Art History, University of Groningen (2004), independent scholar, published on Florentine patricians and (together with Gert Jan Van der Sman) Wisselend succes: De loopbanen van Nederlandse en Vlaamse kunstenaars in Florence, 1450-1600 (Brill 2013).

Lotte van ter Toolen, MA Art History (2014), is PhD candidate and lecturer at the Department of Art History at the University of Groningen. She is preparing her dissertation on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century tomb monuments for artists in Rome.

Henk Th. van Veen, Professor Em. of Art History at the University of Groningen. He has published widely on Florentine art- and cultural history, including Cosimo I de' Medici and his Self-Representation in Florentine Art and Culture (Cambridge: CUP, 2006 (2011)).