Dr. Saskia Beranek is a Content Contributer in the area of Early Modern Dutch and Flemish art. Her research focuses on female patrons and artists in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic with particular interest in the interaction between paintings, architecture, and garden design. Beranek received an M.A from Duke University and her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh and teaches widely on Renaissance and Early Modern topics in both art and architectural history.
One of Rembrandt’s most technically ambitious prints has been primarily known more for its price tag than for its subject: The Hundred Guilder Print.
Who was responsible for the ignition of the Beeldenstorm —the sudden outbreak of violence against religious images that began in the summer of 1566 and spread throughout the Low Countries?