Dr. Moorea Hall-Aquitania

Curriculum vitae and duties

Moorea Hall-Aquitania studied Art History and Italian at Vassar College in New York and obtained an MSc in Technical Art History from the University of Amsterdam. She specialises in sixteenth and seventeenth-century painting techniques, with particular attention to the spread and use of coloured grounds in Netherlandish painting. She completed her PhD at the University of Amsterdam within the NWO-funded project Down to the Ground, with her dissertation titled Common Grounds: The Development, Spread, and Popularity of Coloured Grounds in the Netherlands, 1500–1650 (2025). As part of this research, she developed a database of coloured grounds, published as an RKD Study.

Since June 2025, she has been Curator of Technical Documentation at the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History. In this role, she is committed to preserving, developing, and making accessible the RKD’s rich collection of technical documentation, particularly through the RKDtechnical platform. Her work focuses on fostering interdisciplinary research in which technical analysis and the documentation of artworks play a central role.