Saskia Beranek
Associate Professor, Art History
Wonsook Kim School of Art
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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
263.001Northern Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture
415.001Seminar in Renaissance and Baroque Art and Arch - Women in the Arts 1400-1750
305.001Seminar in Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture: Women in the arts 1400-1750
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
Beranek, S. A Baluster. Amalia van Solms and the Global Trade in Japanese Lacquer. Judith Noorman, Feike Dietz (EDs), Objects, Commodities and Material Cultures in the Dutch Republic: Exploring Early Modern Materiality Across Disciplines (2024)
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
Methods by Mascot: Shared Investment in Theory and Methods. College Art Association Annual Conference. College Art Association. (2025)
‘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)