Art, Art History, and Film Faculty

A specialist on Renaissance and Baroque European art, Amy Golahny has published on Rembrandt, Dutch art, and the interactions between artists of northern Europe and Italy. She has also published on material culture in the American 19th century, the history of printmaking, art of the 20th century, and the ways in which poets use images. In her publications on Dutch art, Professor Golahny has considered how artists' reading informed their art, how artists have interpreted mythology and biblical subjects. Her current project involves the two artists who taught Rembrandt. They were well known in their time but eclipsed by their brilliant apprentice; they imparted to the young artist divergent ways of making art: Jacob van Swanenburg painted fiery underworld visions, and Pieter Lastman, biblical and literary themes with narrative clarity.

She is past president of the Historians of Netherlandish Art, the major international art organization promoting the art of northern Europe, which oversees the digital journal JHNA (Journal of the Historians of Netherlandish Art), an international conferences every three years, and other initiatives. She has also been treasurer and president of an allied organization, the Association for Netherlandic Studies which promotes interdisciplinary Dutch studies worldwide.