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... considers how the rise of the artists’ conception of self and property, as often discussed in the work of Rembrandt’s workshop, cannot be separated from the simultaneous development of the trade in humans as chattel property. art market personhood maritime painting printmaking ...

... The third chapter, “Monuments and Architectural Painting,” examines two dominant narratives of early modern maritime space. One history is dominated by the enslaved and Indigenous pearl divers, whose bodies became crucial to natural philosophers’ understanding of water, air, pressure, gas...