Dr. Jochai Rosen
Department of Art History

E-mail: jorosen@research.haifa.ac.il
Tel: 04-8249228
Fax: 04-8288644
Room: 1706



Research Areas

Netherlandish Art
Painting in the Dutch Golden Age
Genre Painting
Martialism in Early Modern Art
History of Photography
Israeli Photography

Education

2003 - Ph.D. in Art History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dissertation topic: “Jacob Duck and the ‘Guardroom’ Painters: Minor Masters as Inventors in 17th century Dutch Genre Painting.”
1997 - M.A. in Art History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
1995 - B.A. in Art History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (cum laude).

Publications

Authored book

2010 - Soldiers at Leisure: The Guardroom Scene in Dutch Genre Painting of the Golden Age, Amsterdam University Press (AUP), Amsterdam. ISBN 978 90 8964 204


Articles in Refereed Journals


2010 - "The End of Consensus: The Crisis of the 1980s and the Turning Point in Israeli Photography", Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (JMJS) 9, no. 3, pp. 327-347.

2009 - "The Guardroom Scene: A Visual Source for Rembrandt's Nightwatch",
Source, Notes in the History of Art 28, no. 4, pp. 32-39.

2008 - "Masculinity Pacified: Women as Mothers in the Guardroom Scenes of Anthonie
Palamedes (1602-1673)", De Zeventiende Eeuw 24, no. 2, pp. 181-195.

2008 - "Adonis in Jerusalem: Rubens, Snyders and the Dynamics of Collaboration",
Revue Belge d'Archéologie et d'Histoire de l'Art 77, pp. 91-100.

2008 - "The Zionist Renaissance and the Development of Israeli Sports Photography",
History of Photography 32, no. 1, pp. 74-84.

2007 - "A Great Minor Master: The Robbery by Simon Kick in the Berlin Gemäldegalerie. With an Appendix including a complete catalogue of paintings by Simon Kick (1603-1652)", Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 49, pp. 85-98.

2006 - "The Dutch Guardroom Scene of the Golden Age: A Definition", Artibus et Historiae 53 (XVII), pp. 151-174.

2005 - "On the Question of Portraits in some 17th-Century Dutch Genre Paintings",
Dutch Crossing, A Journal of Low Countries Studies 25, no. 2, pp. 265-288.

2004 - "On a Collaboration between Jacob Duck and Abraham van Cuylenborch", Oud Holland 117, nos. 1-2, pp. 74-78.

Other Publications

2010 - “'Behold, I have set the land before you': The P6 Group and Critical Landscape
Photography in Israel" in Building a Place: The P6 Group and Critical Landscape Photography (exhibition catalogue), Tel Aviv, Rubin Museum, pp. 69-74.

2008 - "On the Edge of Abstraction in Israeli Photography", in The Revealed and the Hidden in the Landscape: Photographs by Shai Ginot (exhibition catalogue), Ra'anana, The Open University, 2008, pp. 4-9. (Hebrew)

2007 - "The Abused Landscape: The Works of Young Israeli Photographers", Afterimage, A Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism 35, no. 1, pp. 23-27.

2006 - "The Path of an Artist: Rituals and Ceremonialism in a Series of Works by Avraham Eilat", Contact, Photography and Digital Media 81, pp. 10-21. (Hebrew)

2006 - "Dror Maayan – Berlin Mushrooms", in Dror Maayan, Mushrooms: A Photographic Look at Street Art in Berlin (exhibition catalogue), Haifa, Pyramida – Center for Contemporary Art. (Hebrew)

2004 - "Graffiti in the Works of Three Israeli Photographers", Contact, Photography and Digital Media 71, pp. 20-27. (Hebrew)

2004 - "The Landscape Photographs of Neil Folberg", Contact, Photography and Digital Media 70, pp. 48-52. (Hebrew)

2004 - "Landscape Photography in Israel", Contact, Photography and Digital Media 69, pp. 12-26 (Hebrew)

2004 - "Jozef Israels and Seventeenth Century Dutch Genre Painting", In Jozef Israels - A Heart's Desire (exhibition catalogue), Haifa, Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum, University of Haifa, pp. 29-33.

Active Participation in Scholarly Conferences (2000 – present)
2006 - Center for the Research of Sports, University of Haifa, Israel. Paper delivered: "In the Eye of the Camera: The Development of Sport Photography and Football in the Land of Israel."

2005 - International conference on Art and Mediterranean Culture, University of Haifa, Israel. Paper Delivered: "The 'Classical Portrait': Another Facet of Classicism in Early Modern Northern Europe"

2004 - The 30th Association of Art Historians (AAH) Annual Conference, University of Nottingham, Great Britain. Paper delivered: "Cruel Officers and Begging Hostages: The Humiliation of Subordinates in some 17th century Dutch Genre Paintings."

2003 - The 27th annual conference of the Israeli Historical Society, Jerusalem,
Israel. Paper delivered: "'Ensigns take Position': The Aristocratization of the Standard-Bearer in Holland of the Golden Age." (Hebrew)

1998 - European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Paper delivered: "Jacob Duck and the Question of Portraits within Seventeenth Century Dutch Genre Paintings."

Colloquium Talks and other Invited Addresses
2007 - Initiator and Organizer, with Dr. Ruth Oren, of the Symposium "The Israeli Photography: Historiography and Iconography", Faculty of Humanities, The University of Haifa. Paper delivered: "The Landscape in the Works of Young Israeli Photographers.

2006 - Seminar on the topic Literature and the Visual Arts, The Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, The University of Haifa, paper delivered: "In Luxury Beware: Word and Image in a Painting by Jan Steen."

2006 - The Medieval and Renaissance Studies Association, The University of Haifa, Paper delivered: "The Guardroom Scene in Dutch Painting of the Golden Age."

Scholarships, Awards, Research Grants, etc.

2009 - Historians of Netherlandish Art (HNA) Fellowship.

2001 - A scholarship from the Robert H. and Clarice Smith center for the History of Art, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1999 - Historians of Netherlandish Art (HNA) Fellowship.

1997/8 – Grant for a year studies and research in the Rijksunivesiteit Leiden, The Netherlands.