Saskia Cohen-Willner
- Name
- Dr. S.G. Cohen-Willner
Saskia Cohen-Willner is an Assistant Professor at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.
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Fields of interest
- Visual culture 1500-1700;
- Cultural exchange in early modern Europe;
- Art theory of the early modern period;
- Book History;
- Marketing and sale of prints and drawings;
- Biographies as art theory;
- Karel van Mander;
- Languages of art and Artistic terminology 1500-1700;
- Art markets in Amsterdam and Cádiz;
- Looted art and Restitution of Art and Cultural objects
Research
My current research project focuses on the painter, printmaker and draughtsman Bartholomeus Breenbergh (1598-1657). Based on the extensive study of visual and archival material - print and drawings in various stages and notarial deeds - I define his development and role as an artist and entrepreneur in the artistic networks of Amsterdam, Rome, London and possibly Andalusia, Spain.
- Cohen S.G., Tamis D., Van Rijen J. Van Wely W. & Huet L. (2024), De reformatie van de zeven Hoofdzonden ['The Reformation of the Seven Deadly Sins', in The 7 Deadly Sins in Bruegel's time]. In: Tamis D. & Rijen J. van (Eds.), De 7 hoofdzonden in de tijd van Bruegel. Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers. 53-84.
- Cohen S.G., Tamis D., Hendrikman L., Babin S. & Diels A. (2021), Brueghel en tijdgenoten: Kunst als verborgen verzet? [Bruegel and Contemporaries. Art as a Covert Resistance]. In: Hendrikman L. & Tamis D. (Eds.), Brueghel en tijdgenoten: kunst als verborgen verzet?. Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers.
- Cohen S.G. (2018), The book as an agent for change: Karel van Mander’s Schilder-boeck and the development of a vocabulary of art in the Northern Netherlands. In: Heck M.C, Freyssinet M. & Trouvé S. (Eds.), Lexicographie artistique: formes, usages et enjeux dans l'Europe moderne/ Artistic lexicography : forms, uses and issues in Early Modern Europe. Montpellier: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée. 169-184.
- Cohen S.G. (2015), Rederijkersdromen en schildersdaden: de Italiaanse Levens in het Schilder-boeck van Karel van Mander. Amsterdam: Universiteit van Amsterdam.
- Cohen-Willner S.G. (2013), Between painter and painter stands a tall mountain: Karel van Mander’s Italian Lives in the Schilder-boeck as a source for understanding the migrating artist, Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (NKJ) / Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art 63(1): 312-347 (1).
- Kirchner T, Nova A., Blüm C., Schreurs A., Wübbena T. & Cohen S.G. (2008), Joachim von Sandrart: Teutsche Academie der Bau-, Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste, Nuremberg 1675–1680 (Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel). [other].
- Boschloo A.W.A., Grasman E., Sman G.J. van der & Willner S.G. (2002), Karel van Mander’s Italian itinerary: notes on the dating of his travels. In: Boschloo A.W.A., Grasman E. & Sman G.J. van der (Eds.), Aux quatre vents: a festschrift for Bert W. Meijer. Firenze: Centro Di. 255-258.
- Cohen S.G. (1999), Een schilderij van Jacopo Palma Il Giovane in een vroeg zeventiende-eeuwse Amsterdamse verzameling, Oud Holland 113(4): 175–80.
- Cohen S.G. & Kleeman E.C. (1993), Italiaanse schilderijen 1300-1500: eigen collectie. Gent: Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon.
- Uitbrengen adviezen aan minister OCW als commissielid Restitutiecommissie