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Dr. Thijs Weststeijn

KNIR Fellow 2012

Università: Universiteit van Amsterdam

Thijs Weststeijn studies early modern European art in the context of cultural history. His focus is on the Dutch seventeenth century and the global connections that shaped it, as well as the opportunities that artworks from beyond Europe provide to look back at the Netherlands.