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Research paper thumbnail of Jan van Kessel I (1626-79): Crafting a Natural History of Art in Early Modern Antwerp

The Antwerp artist Jan van Kessel the Elder (1626-1679) was esteemed throughout Europe for produc... more The Antwerp artist Jan van Kessel the Elder (1626-1679) was esteemed throughout Europe for producing finely-wrought, miniature paintings on copper that depict a wide range of flora and fauna, exotic landscapes, and objects of natural artistry (e.g. shells, coral, precious stones). The ‘natural’ world presented in Van Kessel’s art was not a transparent window onto nature, however, but instead was ambitiously crafted through the artist's reappropriation of Antwerp's artistic traditions, material culture, and artisanal knowledge practices. Through a combination of wit, technical virtuosity, self-referentiality, and allusions to local art-historical lineage, Van Kessel’s paintings encourage viewers to simultaneously think about art, in terms of collecting, connoisseurship, citation, and media, and think anew about nature.

This study uses Van Kessel’s art as a distinctive lens through which to examine the relationship between craft, curiosity, and the pursuit of natural knowledge in the early modern period. Each chapter situates Van Kessel within a particular context where art and natural history intersected in late seventeenth-century Antwerp. Taken together, these investigations reveal how his production responded to a unique convergence of circumstances in that city which included the growth of a popular, commercial strand of natural history, a thriving culture of art collecting and connoisseurship focused on local artists, and a burgeoning luxury industry. Van Kessel’s material and conceptual interventions into the representation of nature, such as his innovative, painted “cabinets without drawers” and witty signatures formed from insects and snakes, enabled him to redefine the scope of natural historical illustration and negotiate the value and status of the small-format cabinet picture.

Articles, Essays, Book Chapters by Nadia Groeneveld-Baadj

Research paper thumbnail of Twee kanten van dezelfde medaille: dubbelzijdige altaarstukken van Pieter Pietersz. en Pieter Pourbus in Museum Gouda

Tidinge: Speciale editie over Beleef het Wonder van Gouda , 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Stone Surfaces and Materialities of Marble in 17th-Century Flemish Painting

Paintings on Stone: Science and the Sacred 1530–1800, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Painting on Stone and Metal: Material Meaning and Innovation in Northern European Art

Almost Eternal: Paintings on Stone and Material Innovation (Brill), 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Collaborative Craftsmanship and Chimeric Creation in Seventeenth-Century Antwerp Art Cabinets

Sites of Mediation: Connected Histories of Places, Processes, and Objects in Europe and Beyond, 1450-1650 (Brill), Sep 2016

Research paper thumbnail of A World of Materials in a Cabinet without Drawers: Re-framing Jan van Kessel’s The Four Parts of the World

Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art/Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 62: Meaning in Materials, pp. 202-237, Nov 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Sketches of Simians and Savages on the Versos of Jan van Kessel’s Copper Plates

Boletín del Museo del Prado (2012), XXX, no. 48, pp. 72-83, Sep 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Hendrick Andriessen’s ‘Portrait’ of King Charles I

The Burlington Magazine, no. 151, pp. 22-27, Jan 2009

Catalogue Entries by Nadia Groeneveld-Baadj

Research paper thumbnail of 'Wilhelm van Ehrenberg, Jesuit Church in Antwerp' and 'Follower of Hendrick van Balen, Bathsheba'

Paintings on Stone: Science and the Sacred 1530–1800, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Entries on Aelbert Jansz. van der Schoor: 'Biography,' 'Portrait of a Man,' and 'Vanitas Still Life'

Dutch Paintings in the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum, Vol. II: Artists Born Between 1600 and 1625, ed. Jonathan Bikker (forthcoming)

Research paper thumbnail of Hendrick Andriessen, Vanitas Still Life

Global Perspectives: Exploring the Art of Devotion, 2010

https://artmuseum.mtholyoke.edu/exhibition/global-perspectives

Reviews by Nadia Groeneveld-Baadj

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Janice Neri, The Insect and the Image: Visualizing Nature in Early Modern Europe 1500-1700 (University of Minnesota Press, 2011)

Visual Resources, 29, no. 3, pp. 246-250, Sep 2013

Online Publications by Nadia Groeneveld-Baadj

Research paper thumbnail of The Secret Lives of Early Modern Cabinets

Conferences by Nadia Groeneveld-Baadj

Research paper thumbnail of CFP RSA Chicago 2017: Cabinetization and Compartmentalization in Early Modern Art and Science

This interdisciplinary session examines the role of cabinetizing and compartmentalizing visual an... more This interdisciplinary session examines the role of cabinetizing and compartmentalizing visual and material knowledge, objects, and images in the early modern period. Through considering a wide range of media it aims to develop a theoretical and conceptual understanding of the various ways in which cabinets and cabinet-like spaces and formats, by means of boundaries, thresholds, and kinetic and haptic interaction, organize, frame, decontextualize, re-contextualize, activate, and transform their contents, and also guide, instruct, engage, and transfer knowledge to beholders. We welcome paper proposals that engage with concepts of early modern art and science especially. Suggested paper topics include but are not limited to: Please submit a proposal that includes 1) your name, affiliation, and paper title, 2) a brief CV (max 300 words), and 3) an abstract (max 150 words) on or before May 30 to Nadia Baadj (n.s.baadj@rug.nl) and Lisa Skogh (l.skogh@vam.ac.uk)

Research paper thumbnail of Jan van Kessel I (1626-79): Crafting a Natural History of Art in Early Modern Antwerp

The Antwerp artist Jan van Kessel the Elder (1626-1679) was esteemed throughout Europe for produc... more The Antwerp artist Jan van Kessel the Elder (1626-1679) was esteemed throughout Europe for producing finely-wrought, miniature paintings on copper that depict a wide range of flora and fauna, exotic landscapes, and objects of natural artistry (e.g. shells, coral, precious stones). The ‘natural’ world presented in Van Kessel’s art was not a transparent window onto nature, however, but instead was ambitiously crafted through the artist's reappropriation of Antwerp's artistic traditions, material culture, and artisanal knowledge practices. Through a combination of wit, technical virtuosity, self-referentiality, and allusions to local art-historical lineage, Van Kessel’s paintings encourage viewers to simultaneously think about art, in terms of collecting, connoisseurship, citation, and media, and think anew about nature.

This study uses Van Kessel’s art as a distinctive lens through which to examine the relationship between craft, curiosity, and the pursuit of natural knowledge in the early modern period. Each chapter situates Van Kessel within a particular context where art and natural history intersected in late seventeenth-century Antwerp. Taken together, these investigations reveal how his production responded to a unique convergence of circumstances in that city which included the growth of a popular, commercial strand of natural history, a thriving culture of art collecting and connoisseurship focused on local artists, and a burgeoning luxury industry. Van Kessel’s material and conceptual interventions into the representation of nature, such as his innovative, painted “cabinets without drawers” and witty signatures formed from insects and snakes, enabled him to redefine the scope of natural historical illustration and negotiate the value and status of the small-format cabinet picture.

Research paper thumbnail of Twee kanten van dezelfde medaille: dubbelzijdige altaarstukken van Pieter Pietersz. en Pieter Pourbus in Museum Gouda

Tidinge: Speciale editie over Beleef het Wonder van Gouda , 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Stone Surfaces and Materialities of Marble in 17th-Century Flemish Painting

Paintings on Stone: Science and the Sacred 1530–1800, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Painting on Stone and Metal: Material Meaning and Innovation in Northern European Art

Almost Eternal: Paintings on Stone and Material Innovation (Brill), 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Collaborative Craftsmanship and Chimeric Creation in Seventeenth-Century Antwerp Art Cabinets

Sites of Mediation: Connected Histories of Places, Processes, and Objects in Europe and Beyond, 1450-1650 (Brill), Sep 2016

Research paper thumbnail of A World of Materials in a Cabinet without Drawers: Re-framing Jan van Kessel’s The Four Parts of the World

Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art/Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 62: Meaning in Materials, pp. 202-237, Nov 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Sketches of Simians and Savages on the Versos of Jan van Kessel’s Copper Plates

Boletín del Museo del Prado (2012), XXX, no. 48, pp. 72-83, Sep 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Hendrick Andriessen’s ‘Portrait’ of King Charles I

The Burlington Magazine, no. 151, pp. 22-27, Jan 2009

Research paper thumbnail of 'Wilhelm van Ehrenberg, Jesuit Church in Antwerp' and 'Follower of Hendrick van Balen, Bathsheba'

Paintings on Stone: Science and the Sacred 1530–1800, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Entries on Aelbert Jansz. van der Schoor: 'Biography,' 'Portrait of a Man,' and 'Vanitas Still Life'

Dutch Paintings in the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum, Vol. II: Artists Born Between 1600 and 1625, ed. Jonathan Bikker (forthcoming)

Research paper thumbnail of Hendrick Andriessen, Vanitas Still Life

Global Perspectives: Exploring the Art of Devotion, 2010

https://artmuseum.mtholyoke.edu/exhibition/global-perspectives

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Janice Neri, The Insect and the Image: Visualizing Nature in Early Modern Europe 1500-1700 (University of Minnesota Press, 2011)

Visual Resources, 29, no. 3, pp. 246-250, Sep 2013

Research paper thumbnail of The Secret Lives of Early Modern Cabinets

Research paper thumbnail of CFP RSA Chicago 2017: Cabinetization and Compartmentalization in Early Modern Art and Science

This interdisciplinary session examines the role of cabinetizing and compartmentalizing visual an... more This interdisciplinary session examines the role of cabinetizing and compartmentalizing visual and material knowledge, objects, and images in the early modern period. Through considering a wide range of media it aims to develop a theoretical and conceptual understanding of the various ways in which cabinets and cabinet-like spaces and formats, by means of boundaries, thresholds, and kinetic and haptic interaction, organize, frame, decontextualize, re-contextualize, activate, and transform their contents, and also guide, instruct, engage, and transfer knowledge to beholders. We welcome paper proposals that engage with concepts of early modern art and science especially. Suggested paper topics include but are not limited to: Please submit a proposal that includes 1) your name, affiliation, and paper title, 2) a brief CV (max 300 words), and 3) an abstract (max 150 words) on or before May 30 to Nadia Baadj (n.s.baadj@rug.nl) and Lisa Skogh (l.skogh@vam.ac.uk)