The Global Trajectory of Nicolaas Witsen’s Chinese Mirror

Author Biographies

• Willemijn van Noord

  Willemijn van Noord is a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Amsterdam. She received Bachelor degrees in both Archaeology and Chinese Studies from Leiden University. After finishing her Master in Sinology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, she worked as a trainee curator of Chinese collections at the British Museum and Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. Her current research focuses on the reception of Chinese objects in the Low Countries during the seventeenth century.

• Thijs Weststeijn

  Thijs Weststeijn is an associate professor of Art History at the University of Amsterdam, where he chairs the research project The Chinese Impact: Images and Ideas of China in the Dutch Golden Age. He recently published Art and Antiquity in the Netherlands and Britain: The Vernacular Arcadia of Franciscus Junius (1591-1677), Leiden/ Boston 2015.