Below is an overview of students who completed a (research) master’s thesis within the framework of the project Histories of Global Netherlandish Art:

Ruth Bryant, Transforming Baleen: Waste, Recycling, and Artistic Innovation in the Early Seventeenth-Century Netherlands (2026)

Marilene Kooiman, Een Getransformeerd Beeld: Een vergelijkende studie naar de adaptaties van de gravure van de Geboorte van Christus uit de Evangelicae Historiae Imagines (1593) in China en het Mogolrijk (2026)

Yang Hu, From Panorama to Collage: The Fragmentation and Repurposing of Chinese Wallpapers in Dutch Interiors (2025)

Izzy Stone, Collecting Shells at a Cost: Johan Nieuhof’s Account of the Pearl Fishery at Toothukudi, 1664-1665 (2025)

Corneli Vinke, ‘Voor weetgierige volken’: Een vergelijkend onderzoek naar de representatie van het stedelijk leven in woord en beeld van Azië en Indonesië in twee werken van Johan Nieuhof (1618-1672) (2025)

Lecong Zhou, Domesticating the Unknown: Defining the Export Style of Yixing Stoneware in the Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century China and the Netherlands (2024)

Margaux Shraiman, Commercialising Eden: An Ecocritical Reading of Frans Post’s Drawings of the Fortunate Isles (2024)

Svetla Panagieva, Miniature Splendor: A Closer Look into The Sara Rothé Blue and White Glass “Porcelain” Miniatures (2024)

Manwa Jiang, A Lustrous Cultural Encounter Through Coromandel Lacquer: A Case Study of Coromandel Lacquer Objects in the 17th and 18th Century Dutch Republic (2024)

Zenzy Blindeling, Wat van ver komt: ‘exotische’ kostuumelementen en de zwarte bediende in de zeventiende-eeuwse portretkunst (2024)

Petra Jalsovec, The Nautilus Shell as a Liminal Object Between Naturalia and Artificialia in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam (2023)

Anna Bruins, The VOC, Natural Knowledge, and How the West Came to Learn About Tea (2023)

Yun Xie, Republic of Characters: A Social Network Centred on the Hong Kong Type (2022)

Zhifan Liu, Reconstructing the Jesuit Making of Maritime Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century China: A Case Study On the Marine Animal Illustrations in the Kunyu quantu (Ferdinand Verbiest, 1674) at Het Scheepvaartmuseum (2022)

Sanne Steen, Illustrated Orienlightenment: Early Dutch Orientalism and Enlightenment in Mahomets Alkoran (1696) (2021)

Alec Cornelissen, The Foreign Crave: The Afro-Atlantic presence in 17th-Century Netherlandish paintings, 1600-1700 (2021)

Hilda Groen, Glimpses of the Unfamiliar World: An inquiry into the eighteenth-century Chinese wallpapers at country house Oud-Amelisweerd in Bunnik (2020)

Amber Ang-Jan Lin, Collecting, Wondering, and Exoticizing the Non-European: Picturing Porcelain and Shells in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands (2019)

Emily Campbell, Tulip Symbolism in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Emblem Book (2019)

Charlotte Hoitsma, Owning the ‘Exotic’: A research into the relation between iconography and material in seventeenth-century Netherlandish decorative and applied arts objects with depictions of Africans (2018)

Liselotte van Beek, De verhouding tussen artistieke inventiviteit en levensechtheid in weergaves van porselein in stillevens van Willem Kalf (2018)

Isaac Vogelsang, ‘Aensien doet Ghedencken’: Patronage of Dutch Maritime Art in the Golden Age (2018)