Christopher D. M. Atkins
Professor of 17th-Century European Art

PhD, Rutgers University, 2006

Deputy Executive Officer

christopher.atkins@qc.cuny.edu

Professor Christopher Atkins teaches seventeenth-century European art especially that produced in the Dutch Republic and Flanders. Professor Atkins's research interests include early modern art theory, the production and consumption of paintings, artistic subjectivity, and topologies of modernity. He has completed a book on Frans Hals and has begun a book-length interpretive study of signatures in northern European art from Jan van Eyck to Rembrandt. Professor Atkins previously taught at Northwestern University and worked at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Publications:

Frans Hals's Signature Style: Painting, Subjectivity, and the Market in Early Modernity. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, forthcoming.

Visual Arts Editor and author of "Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art" and "Rembrandt." Oxford Bibliographies Online: Renaissance and Reformation. Oxford University Press, phased launch began 2010.

with Ronni Baer. Five Centuries of European Portraiture. Exh. Cat. Nagoya/Boston: Museum of Fine Arts. 2006.

"Frans Hals's Virtuoso Brushwork." Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 53, Virtus, virtuositeit en kunstliefhebbers in de Nederlanden 1500-1700. (2005): 281-307.

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