Colourful professors: 375 years of portraiture in the collection of the ... - Google Books

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Portraits give an insight into the times and local colour of a place or an institution. This evocative title reproduces a selection of portraits of the professors of the University of Amsterdam commissioned over the centuries since 1632. The collection of…