Ann Jensen AdamsPublic Faces and Private Identities in Seventeenth-Century Holland
Ann Jensen Adams is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A scholar of Dutch painting, she is editor of Rembrandt's Bathsheba Reading David's Letter and has contributed to The Art Bulletin and the Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek. She has received fellowships from The Mrs Giles Whiting Foundation, The J. Paul Getty Trust, The Getty Research Institute, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
1. The cultural power of portraits: the market, interpersonal experience,
and subjectivity; 2. Portraits of individuals: physiognomy, demeanor, and
the representation of character; 3. Family portraits: the private arena and
the social order; 4. The history portrait: comprehending self through
historical narrative; 5. Civic guard portraits: personal friendships and
the public sphere; 6. Portraits and the production of identity:
transitional objects and potential spaces.
