Gerardina Tjaberta van Ysselsteyn (1892 – 1975) was a Dutch

art historian Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...

and textile specialist who wrote several books on the Dutch textile industry. Van Ysselsteyn was born in

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"N ...

as the daughter of the

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, Minister of Agriculture and Economics of the Netherlands from 1918 to 1922, after whom the village of

Ysselsteyn Ysselsteyn is a village in the municipality of Venray in Limburg, Netherlands. It was established in 1921 and named after its designer, Hendrik Albert van IJsselsteyn, then Minister of Agriculture. Ysselsteyn has an extensive hog raising industr ...

has been named. In 1931, van Ysselsteyn conjectured that the Huguenot tract ''

Vindiciae contra tyrannos ''Vindiciae contra tyrannos'' (meaning: "Defences f libertyagainst tyrants") was an influential Huguenot tract published in Basel in 1579. Its author remains uncertain, since it was written under the pseudonym of "Stephen Junius Brutus". Likely ca ...

'' published in 1579, whose authorship is still unclear, was a collaboration between

Hubert Languet Hubert Languet (1518 – 30 September 1581, in Antwerp) was a French diplomat and reformer. The leading idea of his diplomacy was that of religious and civil liberty for the protection and expansion of Protestantism. He did everything in his pow ...

and Philippe de Mornay.

Publications

* * * * Europees porselein : de geschiedenis van een geheim en zijn toepassing, 1949 * White figured linen damask: From the 15th to the beginning of the 19th century, 1962 * * De wandtapijten in het stadhuis van Maastricht (The tapestries in the Town Hall of Maastricht), 1972

References

Author page
in the

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1892 births 1970 deaths Dutch art historians Dutch women writers Writers from Rotterdam Women art historians {{Netherlands-writer-stub