Faculty
Saskia Beranek
Contact
Visiting Assistant Professor, Seventeenth century Dutch art and architecture, female patronage
Saskia Beranek’s research focuses on how portraits were displayed in seventeenth century Dutch palaces. Rather than viewing portraits as autonomous objects, she approaches them as elements of decorative ensembles that included paintings, architecture, garden design, and decorative arts. The role of social etiquette, reinforced through architectural planning, fundamentally shaped the reception of portraiture and by extension, its impact. Beranek is particularly interested in how this affected portraits of women and the divide between the public and private spheres.
Education
PhD, University of Pittsburgh
MA, Duke University
BA, Pennsylvania State University
Selected Conference Presentations
Govaert Flinck and the House of Orange at "New Light on Govert Flinck and Ferdinand Bol: Rising Stars in Rembrandt's Amsterdam" organized by Queen's University, Herstmonceaux Castle, UK, 2015.
The Hollandse Tuin at Huis ten Bosch: Amalia von Solms and Strategies of Living Memory, Geometrization of the Dutch Landscape, Düsseldorf, 2015.
Monuments of Memory: Garden Architecture at Huis ten Bosch. Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference, Boston, 2014.
Oranje Triumphans: The Fireplace as Locus of Design. RSA Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, 2013.
Portraits of Amalia van Solms: Circulation and Display. University of Amsterdam, 2013.
