Saskia Beranek
Associate Professor, Art History
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CVA Center For The Visual Arts 203a
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- About
- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
Biography
Saskia Beranek received her PhD in Dutch art and architectural history from the University of Pittsburgh. She came to ISU after teaching widely in Pittsburgh and at Colby College.
Current Courses
ART 290.001 Art History Research And Professional Skills
ART 156.001 Survey Of Art II
Teaching Interests & Areas
Dutch and Flemish Art, Global Encounters in the Renaissance and Early Modern, Early Modern Print Culture, Women as Artists and Patrons
Research Interests & Areas
Seventeenth-century Dutch Art and Architecture, Women Artists and Patrons, Portraiture, Garden Design, History of Display
Outstanding Researcher Award
Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts
2024
Research Initiative Award
Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts
2022
Harold Gregor Endowed Professor 2022-2024
Wonsook Kim School of Art
2022
Outstanding Teaching Initiative Award
Illinois State University
2021
Outstanding Teaching Initiative Award
Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts
2021
2021 Collaborative Project Award
Society of the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender (SSEMWG)
2021
Book, Chapter
A Baluster. Amalia van Solms and the Global Trade in Japanese Lacquer
Saskia Ruth Beranek.
(2024), Objects, Commodities and Material Cultures in the Dutch Republic: Exploring Early Modern Materiality Across Disciplines, Amsterdam University Press
“The Agency of Portrayal: The Active Portrait in the Early Modern Period.”
Saskia Ruth Beranek, Sheila ffolliott.
(2021), Challenging Women and Agency in the Early Modern World
In Living Memory: Architecture, Gardens, and Identity at Huis ten Bosch
Saskia Ruth Beranek.
(2019), Women Artists and Patrons in The Netherlands: 1500-1700, Amsterdam University Press
Govert Flink and the Houses of Orange and Brandenburg: Networks and Influence
Saskia Ruth Beranek.
(2017), Ferdinand Bol and Govert Flinck: New Research, WBooks
Journal Article
Strategies of Display in the Galleries of Amalia van Solms
Saskia Ruth Beranek.
Historians of Netherlandish Art, 9 (2), (2017)
Other
Fake News & Lying Pictures: Political Prints in the Dutch Republic
Saskia Ruth Beranek.
Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews, (2022)
Rembrandt's Hundred-Guilder Print
Saskia Ruth Beranek.
smarthistory.org, (2022)
Presentations
Bearing Fruit: Female portraits and collective identity in Dutch maps
Saskia Ruth Beranek.
Envisioning Gender and Sexuality in Premodern European Prints, Urbana-Champaign, IL, October 17, 2025
Navigating the waters of home and state: wives, widows and art collecting in the seventeenth century
Saskia Ruth Beranek.
The Female Impact, Amsterdam, NL, June 30, 2025
Methods by Mascot: Shared Investment in Theory and Methods
Saskia Ruth Beranek.
College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, New York, February 14, 2025
‘Eight Silver Egg Spoons’: Anna Menslage between personal and collective memory
Saskia Ruth Beranek.
Historians of Netherlandish Art conference, Cambridge, UK, July, 2024
Patronage, Power, Poetry and Profit: The Lacquer Balustrade of Amalia van Solms.
Saskia Ruth Beranek.
36th CIHA World Congress: Matter Materiality, Lyon, France, June, 2024
For Prestige or Profit? Japanese Lacquerware at the Dutch Court (1635 1655)
Saskia Ruth Beranek.
Challenging Empire: Women, Art, and the Global Early Modern World, Tuscaloosa, AL, March, 2024
Making Spaces, Mapping Faces: Power, Gender, and Identity in a 1635 Dutch Map
Saskia Ruth Beranek.
Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, March, 2024
Making the Self: Gendered Portrait Display in/as Dutch Elite Palace Spaces in the Seventeenth Century
Saskia Ruth Beranek.
Portraiture and the Construction of Identity, Bonn, Germany, April 1, 2023
A Baluster
Saskia Ruth Beranek.
na, Delft, The Netherlands, December 8, 2022
Making Faces and Mapping Spaces
Saskia Ruth Beranek.
ISU WKSoA Faculty Biennial, Bloomington, IL, February, 2022
Intermediality as Feminist Practice: Active Agency in the Early Modern Dutch Republic
Saskia Ruth Beranek.
Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, On, April 21, 2021
Mapping Communities in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam
Saskia Ruth Beranek.
Sixteenth Century Society Conference, St Louis, MO, October, 2019
Henri Lefebvre and the Social Space of the Early Modern Court
Saskia Ruth Beranek.
Mobility and Space in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe Symposium, Oxford, UK, June, 2017