"This volume of essays offers new arguments regarding the significance of the social biography of art and the transformative power of ownership. It realigns the

Historians and art historians provide a critique of existing methodologies and an interdisciplinary inquiry into seventeenth-century Dutch art and culture.

Arthur Efland puts current debate and concerns in a well-researched historical perspective. He examines the institutional settings of art education throughout W

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