Description:
An examination into the connections between seventeenth-century Dutch painting and transatlantic slavery that exposes how depictions of Blackness reproduced hierarchy and suppressed the violence and coercion therein.
Brief description: Angela Vanhaelen is Professor of Art History at McGill University. She is the author of The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam: Automata, Waxworks, Fountains, and Labyrinths, and The Wake of Iconoclasm: Painting the Church in the Dutch Republic, both published by Penn State University Press.