Hanneke Grootenboer (PhD, Rochester NY, 2001) is Professor of Early Modern Art and Visual Culture at the University of Amsterdam. Prior, she was Professor of Art History at Radboud University and University Lecturer and later Professor the History of Art at the University of Oxford, where she also served as the Head of the Ruskin School of Art. Her scholarship on early modern Dutch visual and material culture critically engages with literature and philosophy, addressing topics such as intimacy, interiority, affect and miniaturization. She works in a transhistorical fashion, looking at early modern art through the lens of contemporary art practice while writing on current trends and exhibitions informed by the arts of the past. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships, including from the NIAS, the Clark Art Institute and the Leverhulme Trust. In 2019, she was a Visiting Professor at the Freie Universität, Berlin, and in the Fall of 2021, she delivered the Erasmus Lectures at Harvard University. She is a member of the editorial board of the Netherlands Yearbook for the History of Art and of the general council of De Witte Raaf.
Her publications include The Rhetoric of Perspective: Realism and Illusionism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still Life Painting (University of Chicago Press, 2005, paperback 2006), Treasuring the Gaze: Intimate Vision in Late Eighteenth-Century Eye Miniatures (University of Chicago Press, 2012, Kenshur Prize for best interdisciplinary work). Her most recent books are The Pensive Image: Art as a Form of Thinking (Chicago University Press, 2020, paperback 2023, Outstanding Monograph Prize of the American Association of Aesthetics) and the co-authored Conchophilia: Shells, Art and Curiosity in the Early Modern Period (Princeton University Press, 2021, paperback 2023). Articles have been published in The Art Bulletin, Art History and the Oxford Art Journal, among other venues. She is currently working on a book on art, craft and thought.
Grootenboer, H. (2007). Introduction "The thought of images". Image & Narrative, 8(18).