Dissertation Proposal: Modelling the Network of Dutch and Flemish Print Production, 1500-1700

Dissertation proposal for a graduate thesis in the history of art that examines large-scale changes in the organizational patterns and artistic strategies of reproductive printmakers and publishers in the Netherlands during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The proposal outlines a literature review of historical network analysis in relation to existing literature on early modern Netherlandish printmaking, and describes three computational experiments to be performed as well as a research and writing timeline.