Dan is pursuing the MRes in Renaissance Studies at CELL after completing his undergraduate degree in History and English Literature at the University of Oxford, where he was awarded the Cecil Routh Memorial Prize for his work on the stimulation of Renaissance religious sentiment in Leonardo da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks. His research interests include the function of images in the practice of everyday worship across early modern Europe and English perceptions of Venice and Venetians in the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.