Stephanie Dickey Lecture: Rembrandt’s Women / Then and Now

Speaker Name: Stephanie Dickey
Speaker’s Website: Faculty Bio
Department: Bader Chair in Northern Baroque Art
University or Organization: Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Rembrandt’s representations of women have long inspired strong reactions in viewers, from empathy for his loving sketches of his wife Saskia to disgust at his lifelike depictions of the nude. Meanwhile, his own relationships with women form a complicated chapter of his biography. This talk aims to inspire a fresh look at how Rembrandt’s images of women challenge us to reckon with the female form as a central motif in the history of European art.

Stephanie Dickey holds the Bader Chair in Northern Baroque Art at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She earned her PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where her brilliant fellow students included Prof. Shelley Zuraw. Stephanie is the author of numerous publications on Dutch and Flemish art of the seventeenth century, with a focus on Rembrandt and artists in his circle. Her research interests include portraiture, the history of printmaking, and representations of gender and emotion. She is currently working on a study of the collecting and connoisseurship of Rembrandt’s etchings and an exhibition on Rembrandt and the Amsterdam art market that will open in December 2020 at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, Germany, and in May 2021 at the National Gallery of Canada.