Notes on Contributors
Junko Aono
is professor of art history at Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan. She is the author of Confronting the Golden Age: Imitation and Innovation in Dutch Genre Painting, 1680–1750 (2015), and has written articles on early eighteenth-century Dutch painters, such as Willem van Mieris, Nicolaas Verkolje, and Louis de Moni, and the reception of seventeenth-century Dutch painting in the international art market of the eighteenth century. Her current research focuses on late eighteenth-century reproductive drawings made after seventeenth-century Dutch old masters, a part of which is published as an essay in Kunst, kennis & kapitaal: Oude meesters op de Hollandse veilingmarkt 1670–1820 (2022).
Maria Berbara
is professor of art history at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. She received her PhD from the University of Hamburg. She specializes in Italian and Iberian art produced between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, as well as in cultural history, early modern globalism, and intellectual interchange in the Atlantic world. Her current research examines the history of Antarctic France, the global image of the Tupinamba, and the relation between art, diseases, and conversion processes between early modern Europe and the Americas. Her individual and joint academic projects have been supported by the Getty Foundation, Getty Research Institute, Villa I Tatti – The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, DAAD/Germany, INHA/Paris, and the Brazilian funding agencies Fapesp, Faperj CNPq, and Capes. Currently she is one of the coordinators of the project “The Amazon Basin as Connecting Borderland: Examining Cultural and Artistic Fluidities in the Early Modern Period,” funded by the Getty Foundation.
Julie Berger Hochstrasser
Professor emerita of early modern Northern European art at the University of Iowa, earned her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. Fellowships include Fulbright (Netherlands), Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (Washington DC), and Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (ACLS Burkhardt, Stanford). She is author of Still Life and Trade in the Dutch Golden Age (Yale University Press, 2007) and numerous essays both on Dutch painting and on varied aspects of her project ‘The Dutch in the World,’ which explores artistic interculturation resulting from early modern Dutch trade throughout Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
Cordula Bischoff
is an independent scholar of sixteenth- to eighteenth-century European art history, with a focus on gender studies, interiors, decorative arts, and chinoiserie. She has taught at the universities of Trier and Dresden and curated numerous exhibitions for the Dresden State Art Collections, including “The Art of the Enlightenment” at Beijing National Museum in 2011–2012. Her most recent publications deal with the Order of the Pug, the reception of Meissen porcelain and Augustus the Strong’s collections of Chinese and Chinoiserie prints.
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
is Frederick Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University. He has been a fellow of the American Academy in Rome, the American Academy in Berlin, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Netherlands (NIAS). He is a member of the Flemish, Latvian, Polish, and Swedish Academies of Science, and of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Czech Academy of Sciences awarded him The František Palacký Honorary Medal for Merit in the Historical Sciences. The Technische Universität, Dresden, and the Masaryk University in Brno have given him honorary doctorates. Professor Kaufmann has published 14 books, edited 5 others, and written over 250 articles, reviews, and occasional pieces. His new biography of Rudolf II is forthcoming, while Global Visions: A History of World Art, co-authored with Elizabeth Pilliod, is in production.
Michiko Fukaya
PhD (Kyoto University), associate professor at Kyoto City University of Arts, formerly associate professor at Onomichi City University (2006–2013), has carried out research on Netherlandish paintings, art theory in the seventeenth century, and artistic exchange between East and West. Her publications include “Spanish Patrons of the Utrecht Caravaggisti in Italy,” in RKD Studies: Going South (eds. R. van Leeuwen and G.J. van der Sman, 2023); Karel van Mander’s Lives of Netherlandish and German Painters, Translation with Annotation (in Japanese; with A. Ozaki et al., Tokyo 2014); Caritas Romana: Iconography of Cimon and Pero in Renaissance and Baroque Paintings (in Japanese; Kyoto, 2012).
Charlotte Hoitsma
is a curator at Het Noordbrabants Museum in ’s-Hertogenbosch. She followed the research master’s program in Art History of the Low Countries at Utrecht University, where she graduated with honors. Her thesis focused on depictions of African figures in Netherlandish decorative and applied arts. She is interested in the intersection of art and the domestic, the human-nature relationship, and practices of collecting.
Akira Kofuku
is the former Chief Curator of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. He organized many exhibitions such as “Bruegel and Netherlandish Landscape Painting” (1990), “Claude Lorrain and the Ideal Landscape” (1997), “Rembrandt and the Rembrandt School” (2003), and “Rembrandt: The Quest for Chiaroscuro” (2011). His many publications on Dutch and Flemish art include Bruegel: Confronted with Romanism (2005), Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Paintings: The National Museum of Western Art (2018), and Dutch 17th-Century Art and “Asia” (2018). Currently he is working on a book on Jan van Eyck focusing on his fortune critique (to be published in 2024).
Benjamin Schmidt
is the Bridgman Professor of History at the University of Washington, where he works at the disciplinary crossroads of cultural history, visual and material studies, and the history of science. He has published widely on early modern topics, including Innocence Abroad: The Dutch Imagination and the New World, which won the Renaissance Society of America’s ‘Gordan Prize’ and the Holland Society’s ‘Hendricks Prize’; Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts (with Pamela Smith); The Discovery of Guiana by Sir Walter Ralegh; and Going Dutch: The Dutch Presence in America, 1609–2009 (with Annette Stott). His most recent book, Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, and Europe’s Early Modern World, was a Kenshur Prize finalist and lately appeared in Chinese translation.
Thijs Weststeijn
is professor of pre-1800 art history at Utrecht University. He chairs the research project The Dutch Global Age: Worldly Images and Images of the World in Netherlandish Art, funded by the Vici scheme of the Dutch Research Council (2023–2028). His most recent book is De toekomst van het verleden: Erfgoed en klimaat (Amsterdam: Prometheus, 2023), of which an English translation is forthcoming with Polity Books.