Overview

The Dutch West India Company – active in Brazil, the Caribbean, North America, and West Africa – has received little art historical attention compared to the considerable scholarship about the Dutch East India Company. Terming the network of outposts connected by their activities the “Dutch Americas”, this volume seeks to account for the material histories undergirded by the activities managed by the Dutch in the Atlantic world. The volume offers new narratives for familiar artists such as Frans Post and Albert Eckhout; interrogates the relationship of understudied geographies and corresponding trade goods to art produced in this period; and integrates perspectives of Indigenous and African makers and viewers. Contributors: Carrie Anderson, Adam Eaker, Aaron M. Hyman, Carolina Monteiro, Stephanie Porras, Hannah Prescott, Margaux Shraiman, Margot Steurbaut, Jeroen van den Hurk, Michiel van Groesen, Angela Vanhaelen, Edward Wouk, and Rebecca Zorach. The online version of this volume is available in Open Access. click here for direct access

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Author:   Aaron M. Hyman ,  Stephanie Porras ,  Natasha Seaman ,  Edward H. Wouk
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   75
Dimensions:   Width: 19.30cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 26.00cm
Weight:   1.042kg
ISBN:  

9789004710757

ISBN 10:   9004710752
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   10 July 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Towards an art history of the Dutch Americas Aaron M. Hyman and Stephanie Porras The glazing of Beverwijck’s First Dutch Reformed Church: Colonial power visualized Margot Steurbaut Dutch Reformed churches in Colonial North America: To ‘promote godliness in every way’ Jeroen van den Hurk All things created: Slavery, African knowledge, and material culture in Dutch Brazil (1630-1654) Carolina Monteiro A private Atlantic: The Ter Borch family albums as colonial archive Adam Eaker Amsterdam, Accra, America: Glass beads, pearls, and ersatz gems in the Dutch Atlantic Carrie Anderson A crown made of brass: Dutch piracy and commodifying West African identity in the seventeenth-century transatlantic slave trade Hannah Prescott Commercialising Eden: Frans Post’s drawings of the Fortunate Isles Margaux Shraiman Displacement : Picturing captive women in Brazil Angela Vanhaelen Allegory and allegiance: The Dutch Americas in the imagination of Bonaventura and Gillis Peeters Michiel van Groesen Making and unmaking worlds with tëmakwe Rebecca Zorach

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Aaron M. Hyman is Professor and Chair of early modern art history at the University of Basel. Stephanie Porras is Professor of Art History at Tulane University. Her most recent books include The First Viral Images: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp Print and the Early Modern Globe (2023) and The Routledge Companion to the Global Renaissance (2024), co-edited with Stephen Campbell. Natasha Seaman is Professor of Art History at Rhode Island College and has served on the editorial board of the Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek since 2023. She is the co-editor, with Joanna Woodall, of Money Matters in European Art and Literature, 1400–1750 (2022). Edward Wouk is Professor of Art History at The University of Manchester. He is a member of the editorial boards of Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek and Renaissance Studies. His publications include Frans Floris (1519/20–1570): Imagining a Northern Renaissance, Marcantonio Raimondi, Raphael, and the Image Multiplied, and Albrecht Dürer’s Material World.

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