Books

Benjamin Schmidt & Thijs Weststeijn (2024). The Globalization of Netherlandish Art. (Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History; Vol. 79). Brill Academic Publishers. [DOI] [Repository]

Elizabeth Alice Honig, Judith  Noorman & Thijs Weststeijn (2024). Women: Female Roles in Art and Society of the Netherlands, 1500–1950. (Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek; Vol. 74). Brill Academic Publishers. https://brill.com/view/journals/nkjo/74/1/nkjo.74.issue-1.xml

Trude Dijkstra, Printing and Publishing Chinese Religion and Philosophy in the Dutch Republic, 1595–1700: The Chinese Imprint (Library of the Written Word, Volume: 101). Leiden: Brill, 2022.

Thijs Weststeijn (Ed.), Foreign Devils and Philosophers: Cultural Encounters between the Chinese, the Dutch, and Other Europeans, 1590-1800 (pp. 1–23). (East and West; Vol. 6). Brill. [DOI] [Repository]

Eric Jorink, Frits Scholten & Thijs  Weststeijn, Netherlandish Art in its Global Context. Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art 66, Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2016.

Articles and chapters

Thijs Weststeijn (2025). Van Hoogstraten’s Whole Wide World (English translation by Susan Ridder). In D. de Witt, & L. van Sloten (Eds.), Samuel van Hoogstraten: The Illusionist (pp. 107-121). Wbooks.

Benjamin Schmidt & Thijs Weststeijn (2024). Introduction: The Globalization of Netherlandish Art. In The Globalization of Netherlandish Art (pp. 1-38). (Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History; Vol. 79). Brill Academic Publishers. [DOI] [Repository]

Thijs Weststeijn (2024). Yiyu jiaolü: Helan gongheguo dui zhongguo wuzhi wenhua de maodun fanying 异域焦虑:荷兰共和国对中国物质文化的矛盾反应 []. Guojia hanghai 国家航海 [Journal of National Navigation] , 33, 77-110.

Thijs Weststeijn (2024). Beelden van het koloniale verleden. Historisch Tijdschrift Holland, 56(4), 176-181.

Thijs Weststeijn (2023). Anna Maria Van Schurman’s Chinese Calligraphy. Early Modern Low Countries, 7(1), 1-25. [DOI] [Repository]

Thijs Weststeijn (2022). China (beeldvorming, handel). In W. Frijhoff, C. Secretan, & A. Nijhuis (Eds.), De Gouden Eeuw in 500 portretten, taferelen & analyses (pp. 263-267). Van Wijnen.

Thijs Weststeijn (2022). Unease with the Exotic: Ambiguous Responses to Chinese Material Culture in the Dutch Republic. In Making Worlds: Global Invention in the Early Modern Period (pp. 436-476). (UCLA Clark Memorial Library series). University of Toronto Press. https://utorontopress.com/9781487544959/making-worlds/

Thijs Weststeijn (2021). Saint Confucius, the Chinese Adam, and a Broken Mirror: Writing World History in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands. History of Humanities, 6(2), 471-497. [DOI] [Repository]

Thijs Weststeijn, Rens Bod, Jaap Maat, Julia Kursell. (2021). Theme: decentralizing the history of the humanities. History of Humanities, 6(2), 377-380. [DOI] [Repository]

Thijs Weststeijn & Lennert Gesterkamp (2021). 鲁本斯作品中的“朝鲜男人”的新身份——中国商人兴浦的肖像. 世界美术, 03, 45-59. [DOI]

Thijs Weststeijn (2020). ‘Intoxicated, we listened to warblers and swallows chattering in the spring wind’. Netherlands yearbook for history of art , 70(1), 295-310. [DOI] [Repository]

Weststeijn, M. A. (2020). China, the Netherlands, Europe: Images, Interactions, Institutions and the Ideal of Global Cultural History. In T.

Thijs Weststeijn, Willemijn van Noord & Yang Jin 杨瑾, (Trans.) (2019). Nigulasi Weitesen cang Zhongguo Han jing de quanqiu liuchuan guiji 尼古拉斯·维特森藏中国汉镜的全球流传轨迹  . Minzushi wencong 民族史文丛 (Collection of Ethnic History Studies), 1(1), 67-96.

Thijs Weststeijn (2018). グローバル・アート・ヒストリーとネーデルラント　Global Art History and the Netherlands [in Japanese]: translated by Minako Sugiyama. In A. Kofuku (Ed.), 17世紀オランダ美術と〈アジア〉Dutch 17th-Century Art and Asia [in Japanese] (pp. 403-422).

Thijs Weststeijn (2018). フェルメールの描いた陶磁器 Vermeer’s Painted Porcelain [in Japanese]. In A. Kofuku (Ed.), 17世紀オランダ美術と〈アジア〉Dutch 17th-Century Art and Asia [in Japanese] (pp. 123-138).

Thijs Weststeijn (2018). Chine (Image, Commerce). In C. Secretan, & W. Frijhoff (Eds.), Dictionaire des Pays-Bas au Siecle d’or: De l’union d’Utrecht a la Paix d’Utrecht (1579-1713) (pp. 139-141). CNRS Editions.

-Weststeijn, M. A. (2017). Review of: Xiaoqian Fu-Hébert, L’Architecture chinoise dans la pensée des Jésuites du XVIIIe siècle: Représentation de l’architecture chinoise en France par les premiers sinologues. History of Humanities, 2(2), 514-517. [DOI] [Repository]

-Weststeijn, M. A. (2017). Vermeer’s Painted Porcelain [Japanese]. In K. Akira (Ed.), Dutch Seventeenth-Century Art and ‘Asia’ [Japanese] (pp. 65-72). National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo.

-Weststeijn, M. A., & Dijkstra, T. (2017). Constructing Confucius in the Low Countries. De zeventiende eeuw, 32(2), 137–164. [DOI] [Repository]

– Weststeijn, M. A. (2016). ”Sinarum gentes … omnium sollertissimae”: Encounters between the Middle Kingdom and the Low Countries, 1602-1692. In S. Gang (Ed.), Reshaping the Boundaries: The Christian Intersection of China and the West in the Modern Era (pp. 9-34). Hong Kong University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1k3s9fb.4

– Weststeijn, M. A. (2016). Introduction: Global Art History and the Netherlands. Netherlands yearbook for history of art , 66(1), 6-27. [DOI] [Repository]

– Weststeijn, M. A., & Gesterkamp, L. (2016). A New Identity for Rubens’s “Korean Man”: Portrait of the Chinese Merchant Yppong. Netherlands yearbook for history of art , 66(1), 142-169. [DOI] [Repository]

Reviews

Thijs Weststeijn (2025). Book review: Aaron Hyman, Rubens in Repeat. The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America. Simiolus, 46(1), 95-99.

Thijs Weststeijn (2021). Review essay: Stephanie Schrader (ed.), Rembrandt and the inspiration of India, Los Angeles [Getty Publications], 2018 (Exhibition: 13 March-24 June, 2018) | Jos Gommans, The unseen world: The Netherlands and India from 1550, Nijmegen [Vantilt] 2018 | Gary Schwartz (ed.), Rembrandt’s Orient: West meets East in Dutch art of the seventeenth century, Munich [Prestel], 2020 (Exhibitions: Kunstmuseum, Basel, 31 October 2020-14 February 2021, and Museum Barberini, Potsdam, 13 March 2021-27 June 2021). Oud Holland, 2021. https://oudholland.rkd.nl/index.php/reviews/56-review-essay-rembrandt-and-india

Thijs Weststeijn (2018). Review of: Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Europe’s India: Words, People, Empires, 1500–1800. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. History of Humanities, 3(1), 220-222. [DOI] [Repository]