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The exhibition
An Inner World features exceptional paintings by seventeenth-century Dutch artists working in or near the city of Leiden. In this heavily illustrated catalog, essays illuminate the exhibition's themes and shed new light on the
fijnschilders, or fine painters, of Leiden.
About the author
Lara Yeager-Crasselt joined the Leiden Collection as Curator in 2017. A specialist in seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art, she oversees the Leiden Collection's research, scholarly catalogues, and exhibitions, including the Leiden Collection's recent global tour in China, Russia, and the United Arab Emirates. Yeager-Crasselt is the author of Michael Sweerts (1618-1664): Shaping the Artist and the Academy in Rome and Brussels, as well as numerous articles and catalogue entries on the art of the Netherlands and Italy in the early modern period. Shira Brisman is Assistant Professor of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Albrecht Durer and the Epistolary Mode of Address. Eric Jorink is the author of Reading the Book of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age, 1575-1715 and has published widely on the scientific culture in early modern Europe.
