Description: Claartje Rasterhoff shows how industrial organisations played a role in shaping patterns of growth and innovations in painting and publishing in the Dutch Republic.
Brief description: Claartje Rasterhoff studied history at the University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University. She currently works as a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer in Arts and Culture Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Review Quotes: "[In this book] there is a great deal to admire, and [it] will be required reading for any future students of the Dutch Golden Age." - Andrew Pettegree, University of St Andrews, English Historical Review Volume 133, Issue 565 (December 2018) "This is a remarkable work of integration and synthesis of scholarship that advances a fresh understanding and illustrates novel analytical tools at work in an area of study exceptionally rich." - Sandra van Ginhoven, BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review. 132. (2017).