The Globalization of Netherlandish Art

Is there a special place for the Low Countries in art history’s debates on global mobility? In their The Globalization of Netherlandish Art, Thijs Weststeijn (Utrecht University) and Benjamin Schmidt (University of Washington) seek to find answers. The volume is fully available in open access.

Early modern Netherlandish art

How should we conceive of the globalisation of Netherlandish art in the early modern period? And in what ways does the distinctively worldly orientation of the Netherlands 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 globalisation.