Angela Vanhaelen

Making Publics: Art, Iconoclasm, and Religious Conflict

Book

The Wake of Iconoclasm: Painting the Church in the Dutch Republic. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012.

Co-edited Book

Making Space Public in Early Modern Europe: Performance, geography, privacy. Co-edited with Joseph P. Ward. New York and London: Routledge, 2013.

Articles and Chapters

• “Spiritual Culture.” The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age, ed. Helmer Helmers and Geert Janssen. Cambridge University Press, 2018, 225-246. (translated edition: “Spirituele kunst en cultuur.” De Zeventiende Eeuw, ed. Helmer Helmers, Geert Janssen and Judith Noorman, Leiden University Press, 2021, 290-311. Cambridge University Press, 2018. Translated by Frits van der Waa.)
• “Calvinism and Visual Culture: The Art of Evasion.” Cultures of Calvinism in Early Modern Europe, ed. Graeme Murdock and Crawford Gribben. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, 138-158.
• “Painting the Visible Church: The Calvinist Art of Making Publics” in Making Space Public in Early Modern Europe: Performance, Geography, Privacy, Routledge, 2013, 223–240.
• “Religion Inside Out: Dutch House Churches and the Making of Publics in the Dutch Republic.” Co-authored with Steven Mullaney and Joseph Ward in Making Publics in Early Modern Europe. People, Things, Forms of Knowledge, edited by Paul Yachnin and Bronwen Wilson. Routledge, 2010, 25–36.
• “Recomposing the Body Politic in Seventeenth-century Delft,” Oxford Art Journal 31:3 (2008): 361-81.
• “Utrecht’s Transformations: Claiming the Dom through Representation, Iconoclasm and Ritual,” De Zeventiende Eeuw 21 (December 2005): 354-74.
• “Iconoclasm and the Creation of Images in Emanuel de Witte’s Old Church in Amsterdam,” The Art Bulletin 87: 2 (June 2005): 249-64.

Interview

“Painting Modernity.” Episode 5 of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio series “The Origins of the Modern Public,” produced by David Cayley for the CBC program Ideas. April 30, 2010.

Grants, Fellowships, Awards

• Invited Guest Scholar, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. Theme: Iconoclasm, 2018
• Roland H. Bainton Book Prize for The Wake of Iconoclasm
• Visiting Research Scholar, Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2007-2008
• SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiative, co-applicant, 2005-2010; SSHRC Individual Standard Research Grants, 2002-2005; 2005-2008; FQRSC Programme d'établissement de nouveaux professeurs-chercheurs, 2004-2007

Gender, Sexuality, and Private Life

Book

Comic Print and Theatre in Early Modern Amsterdam: Gender, Childhood and the City. Aldershot, England and Burlington VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2003.

Co-edited Journal Issue

The Erotics of Looking: Materiality, Solicitation and Netherlandish Visual Culture. Special issue of Art History. Volume 35, Issue 5, November 2012. Co-edited with Bronwen Wilson.

Articles and Chapters

• “Vermeer’s Secret Sphere: The Privations of Private Life,” commissioned chapter in Handbook of Early Modern Privacy, ed. Mette Birkedal Bruun and Sari Nauman. Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
• “Vermeer’s Secret Sphere: Privacy, Publicity, Sexuality.” Foreword, special issue, “Bodily Privacy,” European Data Protection Law Review 6:3 (2020): 346-51.
• “‘Jan moet zitten spinnen, wiegen, want Griet heeft hem overmant.’ Seksestrijd in de Jan de Wasserprenten” (“‘Jan must sit spinning and rocking, because Griet has the upper hand.’ The Battle of the Sexes in the Jan de Wasser Prints”). Sekse. Een Begripsgeschiedenis (Sex. The History of a Concept), ed. Myriam Everard and Ulla Jansz. Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis / Yearbook of Women’s History 38 (2018): 40-56.
• “The Erotics of Looking: Materiality, Solicitation and Netherlandish Visual Culture,” Art History 35:5 (Nov. 2012): 874–85 (co-authored with Bronwen Wilson).
• “Publishing the Private in Dutch Comic Culture,” History Compass 10: 9 (Sept. 2012): 652-66.
• “Public and Private Intercourse in Dutch Genre Scenes: Soldiers and Enigmatic Women / Painters and Enigmatic Paintings.” Forms of Association: Making Publics in Early Modern Europe. Eds. Paul Yachnin and Marlene Eberhart. U Massachusetts Press, 2015, 115-132.
• “Stories about the Gallows Field: Power and Laughter in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam.” Power and the City in the Netherlandic World, 1000-2000, edited by Wayne ter Brake and Wim Klooster. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2006, 176–204.
• “Dutch Culture and the Politics of Difference.” Review of Wayne Franits, Paragons of Virtue and Els Kloek et al, eds., Women of the Golden Age. RACAR 21: 1-2 (1994), 137-43.

Teaching and Supervision

Professor Vanhaelen’s teaching overlaps with her research interests. She offers courses on early modern art and visual culture, historiography, methodology, and theory. She supervises graduate and postdoctoral students who specialize in early modern art and visual culture (1500-1700).

Selected Graduate Seminars

• Making Worlds. Art, Materiality and early modern Globalization
• Caravaggio, Caravaggisti, Caravaggio-mania: Painting the Destruction of Painting
• The Moving Image
• Advanced Pro-Seminar: Historiography and Methodology
• Between Worlds: Visual Strategies and Cross-cultural Mediations
• Boredom
• Making Publics / Producing Spaces
• The Disenchantment of Vision
• Iconoclasm and the Re-formation of Art
• Print and Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe
• The Visual Culture of Everyday Life

PhD Supervisions (graduates)

Isabelle Masse, “Médium du portrait, portrait du médium. Les spécificités historiques du pastel dans le long XVIIIe siècle” (2019)

• Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA
• SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship
• Dora Wiebenson Prize, awarded by the Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture, 2017

Tomasz Grusiecki, “Globalizing the Periphery: Poland-Lithuania and Cultural Entanglement, 1587–1668” (2017)

• Associate Professor of Art History, Boise State University
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Central European University, Budapest
• Emerging Scholars Prize, awarded by the Historians of German, Scandinavian and Central European Art, 2017
• www.tomaszgrusiecki.com

Liana Bellon, “Souvenirs of Venice: Reproduced Views, Tourism, and City Spaces” (2016)

• Faculty member, Department of English, Dawson College, Montreal.

Sonia Del Re, “Re-forming Images: Caravaggism in Utrecht and Half-Length Single-Figured Genre Imagery” (2014)

• Conservatrice principale | Senior Curator, Dessins et estampes | Prints and Drawings, Musée des beaux-arts du Canada | National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Anuradha Gobin, “Representing the Criminal Body in the City: Knowledge, Publics and Power in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic” (2014)

• Associate Professor of Art History, University of Calgary
• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of East Anglia, UK

Leah Clark, “Value and Symbolic Practices: Objects, Exchanges, and Associations in the Italian Courts (1450-1500)” (2009)

• Associate Professor, University of Oxford, UK
• Senior Lecturer in Art History, The Open University, UK
• McGill Faculty of Arts “Arts Insight Dissertation Award”
• K.B. Jenckes Award for outstanding McGill graduate in the Social Sciences and Humanities