Albert Blankert (16 June 1940 – 22 November 2022) was a Dutch

art historian Art history is the study of artistic works made throughout human history. Among other topics, it studies art’s formal qualities, its impact on societies and cultures, and how artistic styles have changed throughout history. Traditionally, the ...

and expert in 17th century Dutch painting and the art of

Johannes Vermeer Johannes Vermeer ( , ; see below; also known as Jan Vermeer; October 1632 – 15 December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. He is considered one of the greatest painters of the Dutch ...

. He was

Slade Professor of Fine Art The Slade Professorship of Fine Art is the oldest professorship of art and art history at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and University College, London. History The chairs were founded concurrently in 1869 by a bequest from the art collect ...

at the

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ...

from 1999 to 2000.

Selected publications

*''Vermeer of Delft: Complete edition of the paintings''. Phaidon Press, 1978. *
Gods saints & heroes: Dutch painting in the age of Rembrandt
'. 1980.*''Rembrandt: A genius and his impact''.

National Gallery of Victoria The National Gallery of Victoria, popularly known as the NGV, is an art museum in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is Australia's oldest and list of most visited art museums in the world, most visited art mu ...

, Melbourne; Waanders, Zwolle; 1997.Rembrandt: A Genius and His Impact.

University of Chicago Press The University of Chicago Press is the university press of the University of Chicago, a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. It is the largest and one of the oldest university presses in the United States. It pu ...

. Retrieved 29 June 2017. *''Dutch classicism in seventeenth-century painting''.

Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Municipal Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen () is an art museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The name of the museum is derived from its two most important donors, Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans and Daniël George van Beuningen. The museum is located a ...

, 1999. (Editor)

About Blankert

* Quention Buvelot: 'Levensbericht Albert Blankert'. In: ''Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde te Leiden'', 2023-2024, p. 35-45 (in Dutch)

References

1940 births Dutch art historians Dutch art curators 2022 deaths Dutch expatriates in the United Kingdom Academics of the University of Cambridge {{Europe-art-historian-stub