摘要：In this first issue of 2015, we are pleased to publish four articles on seventeenth-century Dutch art. One uses twentieth-century critical theory as a tool for interpretation of a painting by Gerrit Dou. Another explores an end of the market virtually ignored until now, that for cheap, mass produced history pictures. A third article focuses on how the principles of.seventeenth-century Dutch city planning were incorporated into the built environment of Dutch Batavia to secure colonial domination, and the final article.concentrates on the processes of appropriation and rejection evident in iconic portraits of the De Witt brothers
