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This volume of the
Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek highlights important links between visual and material culture. The essays written by a number of international, renowned scholars approach a variety of materials in their particular historical, cultural and technological settings, uncovering new and surprising meanings in alabaster, oil paint, glass, wood, stone, copper, ebony, paper, and snow.
About the author
Ann-Sophie Lehmann, associate professor at the Department for Media & Culture Studies at Utrecht University, has published wideley on artistic materials and the representation of creative practices in early modern and contemporary visual culture. In 2013 she was a Getty Scholar.
Dr. Frits Scholten is senior curator of sculpture at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam since 1993 and he holds a chair in the History of Art at the Amsterdam Free University. He has published widely on Northern European sculpture and decorative arts.
H. Perry Chapman, Professor of Art History at the University of Delaware, has published widely on aspects of seventeenth-century Dutch art, including self-portraiture, artistic identity, and the artist's studio. She is former editor-in-chief of The Art Bulletin.
