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The Globalization of Netherlandish Art
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Is there a special place for the Low Countries in art history’s current debates on global mobility? How should we conceive of the globalization of Netherlandish art in the early modern period, and in what ways does the distinctively worldly orientation of the Netherlands in this period contribute to early modern visual culture? This volume examines how artworks produced in the wake of European expansion—art produced in the Netherlands in reaction to the world outside of Europe and art made outside of Europe in reaction to encounters with the Netherlands—help us better understand the cultural impacts of globalization.
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. His most recent book, Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, and Europe's Early Modern World, was a finalist for the Kenshur Prize.
Thijs Weststeijn is Professor of Art History before 1800 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).
Thijs Weststeijn is Professor of Art History before 1800 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).
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Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction: the Globalization of Netherlandish Art
Benjamin Schmidt and Thijs Weststeijn
2 The Globalization of War and the Globalization of Art in the Netherlands
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
3 Images of Brazil and the Tupinambá in Anti-Catholic Netherlandish Art during the Early Modern Period
Maria Berbara
4 Owning the ‘Exotic’: a Case-Study of Images of Africans in Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Applied and Decorative Arts
Charlotte Hoitsma
5 Rembrandt in Japan/Rembrandt on Japan
Akira Kofuku
6 Depictions of Dutch Ships in Dutch and Japanese Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Michiko Fukaya
7 Icons, Iconoclasm, Iconic Circuits: Netherlandish Art in the World
Benjamin Schmidt
8 Interior with Monkeys by Willem van Mieris: Images of Porcelain in Eighteenth-Century Paintings and Art Collections
Junko Aono
9 China and Europe, Original and Copy, Narrative and Fiction: Chinoiserie Prints at the Saxon Court
Cordula Bischoff
10 Reflections on Methodology: Remapping Dutch Art in Global Perspective
Julie Berger Hochstrasser
Index
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction: the Globalization of Netherlandish Art
Benjamin Schmidt and Thijs Weststeijn
2 The Globalization of War and the Globalization of Art in the Netherlands
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
3 Images of Brazil and the Tupinambá in Anti-Catholic Netherlandish Art during the Early Modern Period
Maria Berbara
4 Owning the ‘Exotic’: a Case-Study of Images of Africans in Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Applied and Decorative Arts
Charlotte Hoitsma
5 Rembrandt in Japan/Rembrandt on Japan
Akira Kofuku
6 Depictions of Dutch Ships in Dutch and Japanese Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Michiko Fukaya
7 Icons, Iconoclasm, Iconic Circuits: Netherlandish Art in the World
Benjamin Schmidt
8 Interior with Monkeys by Willem van Mieris: Images of Porcelain in Eighteenth-Century Paintings and Art Collections
Junko Aono
9 China and Europe, Original and Copy, Narrative and Fiction: Chinoiserie Prints at the Saxon Court
Cordula Bischoff
10 Reflections on Methodology: Remapping Dutch Art in Global Perspective
Julie Berger Hochstrasser
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