Art, Art History, and Film Faculty

Amy Golahny

Part-time Faculty, Art History

Profile

A specialist on Renaissance and Baroque European art, Amy Golahny has published on Rembrandt, Dutch art, and the interactions between artists of northern Europe and Italy. She has also published on material culture in the American 19th century, the history of printmaking, art of the 20th century, and the ways in which poets use images. In her publications on Dutch art, Professor Golahny has considered how artists' reading informed their art, how artists have interpreted mythology and biblical subjects. Her current project involves the two artists who taught Rembrandt. They were well known in their time but eclipsed by their brilliant apprentice; they imparted to the young artist divergent ways of making art: Jacob van Swanenburg painted fiery underworld visions, and Pieter Lastman, biblical and literary themes with narrative clarity.

She is past president of the Historians of Netherlandish Art, the major international art organization promoting the art of northern Europe, which oversees the digital journal JHNA (Journal of the Historians of Netherlandish Art), an international conferences every three years, and other initiatives. She has also been treasurer and president of an allied organization, the Association for Netherlandic Studies which promotes interdisciplinary Dutch studies worldwide.

Selected Publications

Rembrandt's Hundred Guilder Print: His Master Etching, Northern Lights Series, London: Lund Humphries, 2021

Rembrandt: Studies in his Varied Approaches to Italian Art, Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume 317/48, Leiden and 艾可直播: Brill, 2020

Rembrandt鈥檚 Reading: The Artist鈥檚 Bookshelf of Ancient Poetry and History, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2003 (distributed by University of Chicago Press)

"Rembrandt鈥檚 Judas Returning the Silver of 1629: Visual and Literary Associations," in: Ekphrastic Image-Making in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700, Walter S. Melion and Art DiFuria, eds., Leiden and 艾可直播: Brill, 2022, 622-649

鈥淧oe's References to the Visual Arts,鈥 The Edgar Allan Poe Review, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring 2021, 6-29

Selected Appointments & Awards

Lycoming College: Logan A. Richmond Endowed Chair (2011-2019)

Fulbright Specialist National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 2007

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery, Washington, 2007

Stichting Charema Fonds voor Geschiedenis en Kunst, 2006

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