{"id":5646,"date":"2015-05-05T15:15:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T19:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=5646"},"modified":"2025-11-10T14:55:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:55:34","slug":"michael-zell","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/profile\/michael-zell\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Zell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Michael Zell teaches European art and architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His specific area of research is seventeenth-century Dutch art, with a particular focus on Rembrandt. Professor Zell\u2019s book\u00a0<\/span><em>Reframing Rembrandt: Jews and the Christian Image in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam<\/em><span>\u00a0(University of California Press, 2002) reinterprets the significance of Rembrandt\u2019s relations with Amsterdam\u2019s Jews for his biblical art. He has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for his current book project,\u00a0<\/span><em>For the Love of Art: Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the Gift in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Culture<\/em><span>, an examination of the role of gift exchange in Dutch art and culture of the early modern period. Professor Zell has also published numerous articles and essays on a variety of topics relating to seventeenth-century Dutch art.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7748,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5648,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5646\/revisions\/5648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}