The Globalization of Netherlandish Art

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).

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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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