Saskia Cohen-Willner
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. S.G. Cohen-Willner
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- s.g.cohen@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Saskia Cohen-Willner is an Assistant Professor at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.
More information about Saskia Cohen-Willner
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.
Assistant professor
- Faculty of Humanities
- Centre for the Arts in Society
- KG Oude beeldende kunst
- Cohen S.G., Tamis D., Van Rijen J. Van Wely W. & Huet L. (2024), ‘De reformatie van de zeven Hoofdzonden’, in: De 7 Hoofdzonden in Bruegels tijd, red. D. Tamis e.a., tent. cat. 2024 - 2025, Bonnefanten, Maastricht ['The Reformation of the Seven Deadly Sins', in The 7 Deadly Sins in Bruegel's time]. In: Tamis D. & Van Rijen J. (Eds.), De 7 hoofdzonden in de tijd van Bruegel. Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers. 160.
- Cohen S.G., Tamis D., Hendrikman L., Babin S. & Diels A. (2021), Brueghel en tijdgenoten. Kunst als verborgen verzet?, red. D. Tamis en L. Hendrikman, cat. tent. Bonnefanten, Maastricht 2021 [Bruegel and Contemporaries. Art as a Covert Resistance]. In: Hendrikman L. & Tamis D. (Eds.), Brueghel en tijdgenoten: kunst als verborgen verzet?. Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers. 191.
- Anonymous (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: Lexicographie artistique: formes, usages et enjeux dans l’Europe moderne, red. Michèle-Caroline Heck, M. Freyssinet, S. Trouvé, Montpellier 2018, pp. 169-184 [Lexicographie artistique : formes, usages et enjeux dans l'Europe moderne, Artistic lexicography : forms, uses and issues in Early Modern Europe] (translation: Heck M.C, Freyssinet M. & Trouvé S.). 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 - PULM. 169-184.
- Cohen-Willner S.G. (2015), Rederijkersdromen en schildersdaden. De Italiaanse Levens in het Schilder-boeck van Karel van Mander, PhD diss. Universiteit van Amsterdam 2015. Amsterdam: UvA.
- 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. (1 January 2008), Joachim von Sandrart: Teutsche Academie der Bau-, Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste, Nuremberg 1675–1680, scholarly annotated online edition, ed. by T. Kirchner, A. Nova, C. Blüm, A. Schreurs and T. Wübbena, 2008–2012. Sandrart.net: A net-based research platform on the history of art and culture in the 17th century.. Wolfenbüttel: Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel). [blog entry].
- Boschloo A.W.A., Grasman E., Van Der Sman G.J. & Willner S.G. (2002), “Karel van Mander’s Italian itinerary: notes on the dating of his travels”, in: ' Aux Quatre Vents'. A Festschrift for Bert W.Meijer, ed. A.W.A. Boschloo E. Grasman, G.J. Van Der Sman, with the assistance of O. Ten Houten . In: Boschloo A.W.A., Grasman E., Van Der Sman G.J. & (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.
- Willner S.G. & Kleeman E.C. (1993), Willner, S.G. en Kleeman, E., Italiaanse schilderijen 1300-1500: eigen collectie Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam, Gent 1993. Gent: Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon.
- Uitbrengen adviezen aan minister OCW als commissielid Restitutiecommissie