Erna Kok

Biography

Erna Kok studied Art history at University of Amsterdam, where she gained her MA (cum laude) in 2005 with the thesis: “Het topos van erotische inspiratie: fascinatie en fantasie over de schilder en zijn vrouwelijk naaktmodel’. She continued her research in Dutch art in the seventeenth century at the Researchmaster Art studies, where she graduated (cum laude) in 2006 with the thesis: ‘Van droommodel naar realiteit: tekenen naar vrouwelijk naaktmodel in het atelier van de zeventiende eeuw’. In 2007 she took part in the research project ‘Artistic and Economic Competition in the Amsterdam Art Market, c. 1630-1690; History Painting in Rembrandt's Time’, funded by NOW, were she is writing her PhD dissertation under supervision of Prof. dr. E.J. Sluijter at the University of Amsterdam.

Biografie

PhD dissertation:Painters' careers in The Golden Age.

Central question to this project is how artistic and economic strategies has stimulated - Govert Flinck, Ferdinand Bol, Jacob Backer and Joachim von Sandrart - in their artistic choices and manner of positioning at the Amsterdam art market c. 1635 – 1670.

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Publicaties

Erna Kok, 'The Female Nude from Life: On Studio Practise and Beholder Fantasy', in: Karolien de Clippel, Katharina van Cauteren en Katlijne van der Stighelen (eds.), The Nude and the Norm in the Early Modern Low Countries, Turnhout 2011, pp. 35-50.

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Erna Kok, 'Een liefdespaar onthuld. Jacob Adriaensz Backers zogenoemde David en Bathseba opnieuw geïdentificeerd als Isaäk en Rebekka', in: Oud Holland 124 (2011) 2/3, pp. 119-140.

Erna Kok, 'Zonder vrienden geen carrière: de succesvolle loopbanen van Govert Flinck en Ferdinand Bol', in: De Zeventiende Eeuw. Cultuur in de Nederlanden in interdisciplinair perspectief 27 (2012) 2, pp. 300-336.

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