Prof. Dr Hab. Antoni Ziemba is an art historian, lecturer at the University of Warsaw and chief curator of Medieval and Early Modern European Art at the National Museum in Warsaw. His research interests encompass 15th- and 16th-century Netherlandish and German art, 17thcentury Dutch art, and the theory of art from the late Middle Ages to the 17th century. He is the author of Nowe dzieci Izraela. Stary Testament w kulturze holenderskiej XVII wieku [Israel’s new children. The Old Testament in 17th-century Dutch culture] (2000), Iluzja a realizm. Gra z widzem w sztuce holenderskiej 1580–1660 (2005), translated into English as Illusion and Realism: The Game with the Spectator in Dutch Art 1580–1660 (2016), Sztuka Burgundii i Niderlandów 1380–1500 [The art of Burgundy and the Netherlands 1380–1500], vol. 1: Sztuka dworu burgundzkiego oraz miast niderlandzkich [The art of the court of Burgundy and Netherlandish cities] (2008), vol. 2: Niderlandzkie malarstwo tablicowe 1430–1500 [Netherlandish panel painting, 1430–1500] (2011), vol. 3: Wspólnota rzeczy. Sztuka niderlandzka i północnoeuropejska 1380–1520 [The community of things. Netherlandish and northern European art 1380–1520] (2015). He is the co-author of the National Museum in Warsaw’s catalogue Malarstwo niemieckie do 1600 roku [German painting until 1600] (2000) and Encyklopedia malarstwa flamandzkiego i holenderskiego [Encyclopaedia of Dutch and Flemish art] (2001). He has conceived or co-authored exhibitions and their catalogues, including Caravaggio’s The Entombment of Christ: A Masterpiece from the Vatican Pinacoteca. The Different Faces of Caravaggionism (1996), Art More Precious than Gold. Paintings, Drawings and Prints by European Old Masters in Polish Collections (1999), Transalpinum. From Giorgione and Dürer to Titian and Rubens (2004), The Golden Age of Flemish Painting: Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens... 1608–78 (2007), From Van Eyck to Dürer (2010), The Elevated: From the