"Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of the true, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for."
— George Sand
Anat Gilboa
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History (2007-8)
Renaissance and Baroque Art
E-mail: agilboa2@washcoll.edu
Phone: (800) 422-1782, ext. 5759
Office: Daly 101
Education
- B.A. in Art History and Literature from Haifa University (Israel)
- M.A. in Art History from Tel-Aviv University (Israel)
- Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
Scholarship, Awards and Teaching Interests
Anat Gilboa specializes in the art of Northern Europe (1400-1700), as well as in interdisciplinary themes such as gender and literature in art. Gilboa's research interests concern the iconography, religious, social and cultural significance of Renaissance and Baroque art in Europe. She has been publishing various studies on Dutch and Flemish art. Among others she published a book in 2003 titled, Images of the Feminine in Rembrandt's Work, by Eburon Academic Publishers, and distributed by the University of Chicago Press; a chapter for a Dutch Album Amicorum in 2005 titled: 'The double-sided drawing of Susanna by Lodewijk Toeput; as well as articles on representations of Athena in Early-Modern Art, and on social emancipation in Rembrandt's paintings of his women companions. A recent analysis of symbolism and the interaction of the real and the ideal in scenery in Early-Modern Netherlandish graphic art has been accepted for publication.
Anat Gilboa has received awards from the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance at Victoria University in the University of Toronto, the SPKO (Stichting Postuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Onderzoek) from Utrecht University in the Netherlands, the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) scholarship for dissertation research at the Berliner Gemäldegalerie and the Kupferstichkabinett, the Uppsala University Scholarship for studying a course at the University of Uppsala in Sweden, as well as a scholarship from a private fund in Switzerland.
Gilboa taught courses such as 'Introduction to History of Western Art (Antique through Postmodern Art'), 'Iconography and Symbolism in Italian and Northern Renaissance Art' 'Baroque Art in Europe', and special-topic courses such as 'Hieronymus Bosch' 'Velasquez', 'Rembrandt', and 'Gender in Art' at Queen's University in Canada, at Portland State University in Oregon, and at Georgia State University in Atlanta.