1563-1611 Dutch explorer who went in search of a northeast passage to India. From 1583 to 1589, Linschoten lived in India, working as a bookkeeper for the archbishop of Goa. Seeking a shorter route from the Netherlands to India, he sailed with the...

Jan Huyghen van Linschoten (1563, Haarlem- Feb 8 1611, Enkhuizen) was a Dutch Protestant merchant, traveller and historian. An alternate spelling of second name is Huijgen. He is credited with copying top-secret Portuguese nautical maps thus enabling...

Civil and Corrupt Asia: Image and Text in the Itinerario and the Icones of Jan Huygen van Linschoten, by Ernst van den Boogaart. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2003. viii, 123 pp. $47.00 US (cloth). At the end of the sixteenth century...

Does it make sense to write a monograph of 335 pages on an artist like Jan van Kessel (1641-1680), who is probably only known to specialists in the field of Dutch landscape painting of the 17th century? Will there be books in the...