Hanneke Grootenboer

Before coming to Amsterdam, Hanneke Grootenboer held professorships at Oxford University and Radboud University and taught at Columbia University and Tulane University. She is the author of several books, including The Rhetoric of Perspective: Realism and Illusionism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still Life Painting (Grootenboer 2005) and The Pensive Image: Art as a Form of Thinking (Grootenboer 2021); co-author of Conchophilia: Shells, Art and Curiosity in Early Modern Europe (Bass, Goldgar, Grootenboer, and Swan 2021); and co-editor of On Failure: Error and Defeat in the Dutch Republic (Bussels, Grootenboer, Keizer, and Seaman 2025). She is currently working on a book on art, craft, and philosophy. She is the recipient of various grants, most recently from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2025). Hanneke is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).