Publications
2025
Scholarly publications
Weststeijn, T. (2025). Book review: Felix Schlichter, Mythology, Chronology, Idolatry: Pagan Antiquity and the Biblical Text in the Scholarly World of Guillaume Bonjour (1670–1714) (Leiden: Brill, 2025). History of Humanities, 10(2), 467-469. [DOI]
Weststeijn, T. (2025). Book review: Ada Palmer, Inventing the Renaissance: Myths of a Golden Age (London: Head of Zeus, 2025). History of Humanities, 10(2), 459-462. [DOI]
Weststeijn, T. (2025). Book review: Aaron Hyman, Rubens in Repeat. The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America. Simiolus, 46(1), 95-99.
Professional publications
Weststeijn, T. (2025). Heeft het verleden nog een toekomst? Interview door Kees de Vre. In K. de Vre, & A. de Boer (Eds.), De rijke cultuurhistorie van het Oer-IJ landschap (pp. 146-154). Stichting Uitgeverij Noord-Holland.
Weststeijn, T. (2025). Advies gemeente Baarn voor de aanpassing van straatnaamborden in de Schildersbuurt.
Weststeijn, T., & Ridder, S., (Trans.) (2025). Van Hoogstraten's Whole Wide World (English translation by Susan Ridder). In D. de Witt, & L. van Sloten (Eds.), Samuel van Hoogstraten: The Illusionist (pp. 107-121). Wbooks.
Weststeijn, T. (2025). Van Hoogstratens wijde wereld. In L. van Sloten (Ed.), Samuel van Hoogstraten: De illusionist (tentoonstellingscatalogus Museum Rembrandthuis, 1 februari-4 mei 2025) (pp. 108-121). Wbooks.
2024
Scholarly publications
Weststeijn, T., & Huang, J. (2024). Yiyu jiaolü: Helan gongheguo dui zhongguo wuzhi wenhua de maodun fanying 异域焦虑:荷兰共和国对中国物质文化的矛盾反应 []. Guojia hanghai 国家航海 [Journal of National Navigation] , 33, 77-110.
Weststeijn, T., Noorman, J., & Honig, E. (2024). Women: Female Roles in Art and Society of the Netherlands, 1500–1950. (Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek; Vol. 74). Brill Academic Publishers. https://brill.com/view/journals/nkjo/74/1/nkjo.74.issue-1.xml
Weststeijn, T. (2024). Beelden van het koloniale verleden. Historisch Tijdschrift Holland, 56(4), 176-181.
Professional publications
Weststeijn, T., Stols-Witlox, M., & Chopard, B. (2024). Vervalcoördinator cultureel erfgoed. Web publication/site, de Lichtkogel. https://delichtkogel.nl/nieuwe-editie/artikelen-cultureel-erfgoed/vervalcoordinator-cultureel-erfgoed/
Weststeijn, T. (2024). Welke toekomst voor het verleden? Podcast voor Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience. Digital or Visual Products https://soundcloud.com/consciencebibliotheek/welke-toekomst-voor-het-verleden
Weststeijn, T. (2024). De toekomst van het verleden nu: interview door Roelant van der Steen. Tijdschrift Article, 32, 27-34.
Weststeijn, T., & van As, S. (Eds.) (2024). Goed gefundeerd: Advies om te komen tot een nationale aanpak van funderingsproblematiek. Raad voor de leefomgeving en infrastuctuur (RLI). https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/rapporten/2023/10/09/rli-advies-goed-gefundeerd
Weststeijn, T. (2024). Zijn we klaar om ons erfgoed los te laten? Interview met Thijs Weststeijn. 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). Talenstudies: ironische bezuinigingen. NRC Handelsblad. https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/12/10/talenstudies-ironische-bezuiniging-a4876077
Weststeijn, T. (2024). Wat doen we straks met de Goudse glazen? Interview door Jephta Dullaart. Geschiedenis Magazine, 2024(1), 56-58. https://geschiedenismagazine.nl/wat-doen-we-straks-met-de-goudse-glazen
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
Bod, R., Maat, J., Kursell, J., & Weststeijn, T. (2021). Theme: decentralizing the history of the humanities. History of Humanities, 6(2), 377-380. [DOI] [Repository]
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. (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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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). 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. [DOI] [Portal]
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. [DOI] [Portal]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
Popularising publications
Weststeijn, T., & Son, Y. (2018). “루벤스 ‘한복 입은 남자’ 주인공은 조선인 아닌 중국상인 이퐁”. Kukmin Ilbo. https://n.news.naver.com/mnews/article/005/0001160024?sid=001
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI]
Weststeijn, M. A., & Dijkstra, T. (2017). Constructing Confucius in the Low Countries. De zeventiende eeuw, 32(2), 137–164. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
Bod, R., Kursell, J., Maat, J., & Weststeijn, M. A. (2016). A New Field: History of Humanities. History of Humanities, 1(1), 1-8. [DOI] [Repository]
Weststeijn, M. A. (2016). The Sublime and the 'Beholder’s Share': Junius, Rubens, Rembrandt. Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, 8(2). [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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.