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Saskia Beranek

Associate Professor, Art History
Wonsook Kim School of Art
Office
CVA Center For The Visual Arts 203a
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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

244.001Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture

156.001Survey Of Art II

290.001Art History Research And Professional Skills

415.001Seminar in Renaissance & Baroque Art and Architecture: History of Printed Images

305.001Seminar in Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture: Renaissance and Baroque Printmaking

156.001Survey 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

Saskia Beranek and Sheila ffolliott, “The Agency of Portrayal: The Active Portrait in the Early Modern Period.” In Challenging Women and Agency in the Early Modern World, ed. Merry Wiesner-Hanks. Amsterdam University Press, 2021.
Beranek, S. In Living Memory: Architecture, Gardens, and Identity at Huis ten Bosch. Women Artists and Patrons in The Netherlands: 1500-1700. Amsterdam University Press (2019)
Beranek, S. Govert Flink and the Houses of Orange and Brandenburg: Networks and Influence. Stephanie Dickey (EDs), Ferdinand Bol and Govert Flinck: New Research. WBooks (2017)

Journal Article

Beranek, S. Strategies of Display in the Galleries of Amalia van Solms. JHNA (Journal of the Historians of Netherlandish Art. Historians of Netherlandish Art 9.2 (2017)

Presentations

‘Eight Silver Egg Spoons’: Anna Menslage between personal and collective memory. Historians of Netherlandish Art conference. Historians of Netherlandish Art. (2024)
For Prestige or Profit? Japanese Lacquerware at the Dutch Court (1635 1655). Challenging Empire: Women, Art, and the Global Early Modern World. University of Alabama. (2024)
Making Spaces, Mapping Faces: Power, Gender, and Identity in a 1635 Dutch Map. Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference. Renaissance Society of America. (2024)
Patronage, Power, Poetry and Profit: The Lacquer Balustrade of Amalia van Solms.. 36th CIHA World Congress: Matter Materiality. Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art. (2024)
Making the Self: Gendered Portrait Display in/as Dutch Elite Palace Spaces in the Seventeenth Century . Portraiture and the Construction of Identity. Kunsthistorisches Institut, Universität Bonn. (2023)
A Baluster. na. Amsterdam Center for the Study of Early Modernity (University of Amsterdam) and Museum het Prinsenhof, Delft. (2022)
Making Faces and Mapping Spaces. ISU WKSoA Faculty Biennial. (2022)
Intermediality as Feminist Practice: Active Agency in the Early Modern Dutch Republic. Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference. Renaissance Society of America. (2021)
Mapping Communities in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam. Sixteenth Century Society Conference. Sixteenth Century Society. (2019)
Henri Lefebvre and the Social Space of the Early Modern Court. Mobility and Space in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe Symposium. Oxford University. (2017)