Talking of Door Knockers

Author Biography

• Marijn Schapelhouman

  Marijn Schapelhouman was appointed curator of drawings in the Print Room of the Rijksmuseum in 1981. Since 1991 he has been senior curator of drawings in the same department. His main interest is in Dutch and Flemish drawings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and he has written numerous books and articles on the subject, among them Netherlandish Drawings circa 1600 in the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam 1987), Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam: Artists Born between 1580 and 1600 (Amsterdam 1998, with Peter Schatborn) and Rembrandt and the Art of Drawing (Zwolle/Amsterdam 2006).