Publications
2024
Professional publications
Weststeijn, T. (2024). Input advies ‘Goed gefundeerd’, Raad voor de leefomgeving en infrastructuur (Rli), aangeboden aan minister Hugo de Jonge.
Weststeijn, T. (2024). Zijn we klaar om ons erfgoed los te laten? Interview door Joke Beyl. Faro. Tijdschrift over cultureel erfgoed, 17(1), 6-9. https://faro.be/blogs/joke-beyl/zijn-we-klaar-om-ons-erfgoed-los-te-laten-interview-met-thijs-weststeijn
Popularising publications
Weststeijn, T. (2024). Wat doen we straks met de Goudse glazen? Interview door Jephta Dullaart. Geschiedenis Magazine, 2024(1), 56-58.
2023
Scholarly publications
Weststeijn, T., Bod, R., Maat, J., & Kursell, J. (2023). Theme: Unfolding Disciplines in the History of the Humanities: Introduction. History of Humanities, 8(1), 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1086/723943
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/432626/bod-et-al-2023-introduction.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/432626/bod-et-al-2023-introduction.pdf?sequence=1
Weststeijn, T. (2023). De toekomst van het verleden: erfgoed en klimaat. Prometheus.
Weststeijn, T. (2023). Anna Maria Van Schurman’s Chinese Calligraphy. Early Modern Low Countries, 7(1), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.51750/emlc11103
Professional publications
Weststeijn, T., & Glas, A. (2023). 'Edele diamant' China verovert Hollandse harten. Interview door Arjan Glas. In E. Zhang (Ed.), Chinese cultuur in het Nederlands (pp. 110-118). Beijing Foreign Studies University.
Popularising publications
Weststeijn, T., & Kleinjan, G.-J. (2023). Gouda verzuipt: klimaatverandering bedreigt historisch erfgoed. Interview. Trouw. https://www.trouw.nl/verdieping/gouda-verzuipt-klimaatverandering-bedreigt-historisch-erfgoed~bd25d0ac/
Weststeijn, T., & Funnekotter, B. (2023). ‘Wat doen we met het Paleis op de Dam als het water komt?’: Interview. NRC Handelsblad. https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/09/28/wat-doen-we-met-het-paleis-op-de-dam-als-het-water-komt-a4175618
Weststeijn, T. (2023). Klimaatverandering bedreigt ook ons erfgoed. Hoogleraar Thijs Weststeijn luidt de noodklok: ‘Het was ook míjn blinde vlek’. de Volkskrant. https://www.volkskrant.nl/cultuur-media/klimaatverandering-bedreigt-ook-ons-erfgoed-hoogleraar-thijs-weststeijn-luidt-de-noodklok-het-was-ook-mijn-blinde-vlek~bd31e106/
2022
Scholarly publications
Weststeijn, T. (2022). China (beeldvorming, handel). In W. Frijhoff, C. Secretan, & A. Nijhuis (Eds.), De Gouden Eeuw in 500 portretten, taferelen & analyses (pp. 263-267). Van Wijnen.
Weststeijn, T. (2022). Unease with the Exotic: Ambiguous Responses to Chinese Material Culture in the Dutch Republic. In Making Worlds: Global Invention in the Early Modern Period (pp. 436-476). (UCLA Clark Memorial Library series). University of Toronto Press. https://utorontopress.com/9781487544959/making-worlds/
Professional publications
Weststeijn, T. (2022). Aanbeveling betreffende de aankoop van een schilderij door Samuel van Hoogstraten.
Popularising publications
Weststeijn, T. (2022, Nov 2). Klimaatactivisten en hun critici zitten in hetzelfde schuitje. NRC Handelsblad. https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2022/11/02/klimaatactivisten-en-hun-critici-zitten-in-hetzelfde-schuitje-a4147003
Weststeijn, T., & Schoon, W. (2022, Jul 9). De wereld kwam het schilderij binnen: Interview. https://www.trouw.nl/wetenschap/globalisering-veranderde-de-schilderkunst-van-de-hollandse-meesters~ba020c8d/
2021
Scholarly publications
Weststeijn, T. (2021). Saint Confucius, the Chinese Adam, and a Broken Mirror: Writing World History in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands. History of Humanities, 6(2), 471-497. https://doi.org/10.1086/715867
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/415967/715867.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/415967/715867.pdf?sequence=1
Bod, R., Maat, J., Kursell, J., & Weststeijn, T. (2021). Theme: decentralizing the history of the humanities. History of Humanities, 6(2), 377-380. https://doi.org/10.1086/715862
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/419052/715862.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/419052/715862.pdf?sequence=1
Weststeijn, T. (2021). Review essay: Stephanie Schrader (ed.), Rembrandt and the inspiration of India, Los Angeles [Getty Publications], 2018 (Exhibition: 13 March-24 June, 2018) | Jos Gommans, The unseen world: The Netherlands and India from 1550, Nijmegen [Vantilt] 2018 | Gary Schwartz (ed.), Rembrandt’s Orient: West meets East in Dutch art of the seventeenth century, Munich [Prestel], 2020 (Exhibitions: Kunstmuseum, Basel, 31 October 2020-14 February 2021, and Museum Barberini, Potsdam, 13 March 2021-27 June 2021). Oud Holland, 2021. https://oudholland.rkd.nl/index.php/reviews/56-review-essay-rembrandt-and-india
Weststeijn, T., & Gesterkamp, L. (2021). 鲁本斯作品中的“朝鲜男人”的新身份——中国商人兴浦的肖像. 世界美术, 03, 45-59. https://doi.org/10.13318/j.cnki.sjms.2021.03.009
Weststeijn, T. (2021). The Cultural Origins of Dutch Colonialism. Paper presented at Spores of empire .
Weststeijn, T. (2021). Painting as "Reall Performance" in Rembrandt's Studio. In G. Alexander, E. Gilby, & A. Marr (Eds.), The Places of Early Modern Criticism (pp. 206-218). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198834687.003.0014
Weststeijn, T. (2021). Daniel Canaris Vico and China. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment. Liverpool: Voltaire Foundation in association with Liverpool University Press, 2020. Pp. xv+273. £65.00 (paper). History of Humanities, 6(1), 360-363. https://doi.org/10.1086/713281
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/418819/713281.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/418819/713281.pdf?sequence=1
Professional publications
Weststeijn, T. (2021). Heritage at Sea: must we accept the loss of beloved heritage to the climate crisis?. Web publication/site, Aeon. https://aeon.co/essays/must-we-accept-the-loss-of-beloved-heritage-to-the-climate-crisis
Popularising publications
Weststeijn, T. (2021). Historisch erfgoed en klimaatverandering: Wat doen we met het Paleis op de Dam? De Groene Amsterdammer, 145(10-11), 102-106. https://www.groene.nl/artikel/wat-doen-we-met-het-paleis-op-de-dam
2020
Scholarly publications
Weststeijn, M. A. (2020). Book review: Christopher S. Wood, A History of Art History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. 472. US$35.00 (cloth). History of Humanities, 5(2), 526-528. https://doi.org/10.1086/710288
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/410087/710288.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/410087/710288.pdf?sequence=1
Chapman, H. P., & Weststeijn, M. A. (Eds.) (2020). Ars Amicitiae: The Art of Friendship in the Early Modern Netherlands. (Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek; Vol. 70). Brill.
Weststeijn, M. A. (2020). 'Intoxicated, we listened to warblers and swallows chattering in the spring wind'. Netherlands yearbook for history of art , 70(1), 295-310. https://doi.org/10.1163/22145966-07001013
Weststeijn, M. A. (2020). Overview of Chinese Objects and Books Present in the Low Countries in the Seventeenth Century. In T. Weststeijn (Ed.), Foreign Devils and Philosophers: Cultural Encounters between the Chinese, the Dutch, and Other Europeans, 1590-1800 (pp. 312-342). (East and West; Vol. 6). Brill.
Weststeijn, M. A. (2020). Just Like Zhou: Chinese Visitors to the Netherlands (1597–1705) and Their Cultural Representation. In T. Weststeijn (Ed.), Foreign Devils and Philosophers: Cultural Encounters between the Chinese, the Dutch, and Other Europeans, 1590-1800 (pp. 104-131). (East and West; Vol. 6). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004418929_006
Weststeijn, M. A. (2020). China, the Netherlands, Europe: Images, Interactions, Institutions and the Ideal of Global Cultural History. In T. Weststeijn (Ed.), Foreign Devils and Philosophers: Cultural Encounters between the Chinese, the Dutch, and Other Europeans, 1590-1800 (pp. 1–23). (East and West; Vol. 6). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004418929_002
Weststeijn, M. A. (Ed.) (2020). Foreign Devils and Philosophers: Cultural Encounters between the Chinese, the Dutch, and Other Europeans, 1590-1800. (East and West: Culture, Diplomacy and Interactions; Vol. 6). Brill. https://brill.com/view/title/38786
2019
Scholarly publications
Weststeijn, M. A., Van Noord, W., & Yang Jin 杨瑾, (TRANS.) (2019). Nigulasi Weitesen cang Zhongguo Han jing de quanqiu liuchuan guiji 尼古拉斯·维特森藏中国汉镜的全球流传轨迹 . Minzushi wencong 民族史文丛 (Collection of Ethnic History Studies), 1(1), 67-96.
H. Perry Chapman, & Weststeijn, M. A. (2019). Connoisseurship as Knowledge. An Introduction. Netherlands yearbook for history of art , 69, 7-41. https://doi.org/10.1163/22145966-06901002
Weststeijn, M. A., Chapman, H. P. (Ed.), & Meijers, D. (Ed.) (2019). Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek: Connoisseurship and the Knowledge of Art. Brill. https://brill.com/view/title/55510
Weststeijn, M. A. (2019). Review: Nicola Suthor, Rembrandt's Roughness, 2018. The Art Bulletin, 101, 148-151. https://doi.org/10.1080/00043079.2019.1644907
Weststeijn, M. A. (2019). Review: Gero Seelig, Eric Jorink, Bert van de Roemer & Karin Leonhard, Medusa’s Menagerie: Otto Marseus van Schrieck and the Scholars. Isis, 110(1), 170-171. https://doi.org/10.1086/702461
Professional publications
Weststeijn, M. A., & Simons, M. (2019). In Memoriam Hessel Miedema. Web publication/site https://hnanews.org/in-memoriam-hessel-miedema/
2018
Scholarly publications
Weststeijn, M. A. (2018). グローバル・アート・ヒストリーとネーデルラント Global Art History and the Netherlands [in Japanese]: translated by Minako Sugiyama. In A. Kofuku (Ed.), 17世紀オランダ美術と〈アジア〉Dutch 17th-Century Art and Asia [in Japanese] (pp. 403-422).
Weststeijn, M. A. (2018). フェルメールの描いた陶磁器 Vermeer's Painted Porcelain [in Japanese]. In A. Kofuku (Ed.), 17世紀オランダ美術と〈アジア〉Dutch 17th-Century Art and Asia [in Japanese] (pp. 123-138).
Weststeijn, M. A. (2018). The Chinese Isis, or the Sino-Egyptian Hypothesis. In M.-J. Versluys, K. Bülow Clausen, & G. Capriotti Vittozzi (Eds.), The Iseum Campense from the Roman Empire to the Modern Age: Temple – Monument – lieu de mémoire (pp. 303-313). (Papers of the Royal Netherlands Instute in Rome). Edizioni Quasar, Rome.
Weststeijn, M. A. (2018). Chine (Image, Commerce). In C. Secretan, & W. Frijhoff (Eds.), Dictionaire des Pays-Bas au Siecle d'or: De l'union d'Utrecht a la Paix d'Utrecht (1579-1713) (pp. 139-141). CNRS Editions.
Weststeijn, M. A. (2018). Review of: Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Europe’s India: Words, People, Empires, 1500–1800. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. History of Humanities, 3(1), 220-222. https://doi.org/10.1086/696317
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https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/375884/weststeijn.pdf?sequence=1
2017
Scholarly publications
Weststeijn, M. A. (2017). The Painting Looks Back: Reciprocal Desire in the Seventeenth Century. In W. Melion, J. Woodall, & M. Zell (Eds.), Ut pictura amor: The Reflexive Imagery of Love in Artistic Theory and Practice, 1500-1700 (pp. 264-295). (Intersections; Vol. 48). Brill.
Weststeijn, M. A. (2017). Rembrandt and the Germanic Style. In S. Dickey (Ed.), Rembrandt and his Circle: Insights and Discoveries (pp. 44-66). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789462984004
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/361260/rembrandt_and_his_circle.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/361260/rembrandt_and_his_circle.pdf?sequence=1
Weststeijn, M. A. (2017). Germanic Antiquity in Rembrandt’s Circle. In S. Dupré, & C. Goettler (Eds.), Knowledge and Discernment in the Early Modern Arts (pp. 236-264). Routledge.
Weststeijn, M. A. (2017). Review of: Alessandro Pergoli Campanelli, La nascita del restauro: Dall’antichità all’Alto Medioevo. History of Humanities, 2(2), 507-509. https://doi.org/10.1086/693326
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/358985/campanelli.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/358985/campanelli.pdf?sequence=1
Weststeijn, M. A. (2017). Review of: Xiaoqian Fu-Hébert, L’Architecture chinoise dans la pensée des Jésuites du XVIIIe siècle: Représentation de l’architecture chinoise en France par les premiers sinologues. History of Humanities, 2(2), 514-517. https://doi.org/10.1086/693329
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/358984/chinoise.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/358984/chinoise.pdf?sequence=1
Weststeijn, M. A. (2017). Vermeer's Painted Porcelain [Japanese]. In K. Akira (Ed.), Dutch Seventeenth-Century Art and 'Asia' [Japanese] (pp. 65-72). National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo.
Weststeijn, M. A. (2017). Review of: Neil De Marchi and Sophie Raux, eds., Moving Pictures: Intra-European Trade in Images, 16th–18th Centuries Studies in European Urban History (1100–1800), Vol. 34. Turnhout: Brepols, 2014; Gerrit Verhoeven, Europe within Reach: Netherlandish Travellers on the Grand Tour and Beyond (1585–1750). Egodocuments and History, Vol. 9. Leiden: Brill, 2015. CAA.reviews. https://doi.org/10.3202/caa.reviews.2017.52
Weststeijn, M. A., & Dijkstra, T. (2017). Constructing Confucius in the Low Countries. De zeventiende eeuw, 32(2), 137–164. https://doi.org/10.18352/dze.10147
Professional publications
Weststeijn, M. A., & Jonker, M. (Eds.) (2017). Barbaren en Wijsgeren: Het beeld van China in de Gouden Eeuw. Vantilt.
Weststeijn, M. A. (2017). Inleiding: het Rijk van het Midden in de Lage Landen. In T. Weststeijn, & M. Jonker (Eds.), Barbaren en wijsgeren: het beeld van China in de Gouden Eeuw (pp. 9-24). Vantilt.
Other output
Hoogenboom, A. M. E. L., Weststeijn, M. A., Schmidt, V. M., & van Rossem, P. (2017). Academische vaardigheden kunsthistorici: -. Web publication/site, . https://avk.sites.uu.nl/
Weststeijn, M. A. (2017). Een wereldse kunst. Web publication/site, Utrecht University.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/360602/Oratie_Thijs_Weststeijn_totaal.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/360602/Oratie_Thijs_Weststeijn_totaal.pdf?sequence=1
2016
Scholarly publications
Weststeijn, M. A. (2016). Review of: Noël Golvers, Libraries of Western Learning for China: Circulation of Western Books between Europe and China in the Jesuit Mission (ca. 1650–ca. 1750). History of Humanities, 1(2), 420-423. https://doi.org/10.1086/687979
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/350701/Noel.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/350701/Noel.pdf?sequence=1
Weststeijn, M. A. (2016). Review: A. Schnapp, L. von Falkenhausen, P.N. Miller & T. Murray (eds.), World Antiquarianism: Comparative Perspectives. History of Humanities, 1(1), 185-187. https://doi.org/10.1086/685065
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/350700/Review.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/350700/Review.pdf?sequence=1
Bod, R., Kursell, J., Maat, J., & Weststeijn, M. A. (2016). A New Field: History of Humanities. History of Humanities, 1(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1086/685056
Weststeijn, M. A. (2016). The Sublime and the 'Beholder’s Share': Junius, Rubens, Rembrandt. Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, 8(2). https://doi.org/10.5092/jhna.2016.8.2.2
Weststeijn, M. A. (2016). The Rules of Art and Rembrandt, 1630-1730. In W. Franits (Ed.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Dutch Art of the Seventeenth Century (pp. 202-233). Ashgate.
Weststeijn, M. A. (2016). ”Sinarum gentes ... omnium sollertissimae”: Encounters between the Middle Kingdom and the Low Countries, 1602-1692. In S. Gang (Ed.), Reshaping the Boundaries: The Christian Intersection of China and the West in the Modern Era (pp. 9-34). Hong Kong University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1k3s9fb.4
Weststeijn, M. A. (2016). Introduction: Global Art History and the Netherlands. Netherlands yearbook for history of art , 66(1), 6-27. https://doi.org/10.1163/22145966-90000779
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/350699/art.pdf?sequence=1
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Weststeijn, M. A., & Gesterkamp, L. (2016). A New Identity for Rubens’s “Korean Man”: Portrait of the Chinese Merchant Yppong. Netherlands yearbook for history of art , 66(1), 142-169. https://doi.org/10.1163/22145966-90000784
Weststeijn, M. A., Jorink, E., & Scholten, F. (Eds.) (2016). Netherlandish Art in its Global Context. Special issue, Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art, 66. (Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art; Vol. 66, No. 1). Brill.