Wayne Franits is a specialist in seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art. He is the co-author (with Leonard J. Slatkes) ofThe Paintings of Hendrick ter Brugghen (1588-1629) (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007). His other books are Pieter de Hooch: A Woman Preparing Bread and Butter for a Boy (Getty Museum Studies of Art: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2006), Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting; Its Stylistic and Thematic Evolution (Yale University Press, 2004), and Paragons of Virtue; Women and Domesticity in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art (Cambridge University Press, 1993). Franits served as editor for The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and Looking at Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art; Realism Reconsidered (Cambridge University Press, 1997). Between 1998-2005, Franits was the series editor for Cambridge University Press's former book series, Cambridge Studies in Netherlandish Visual Culture. In addition, he has published numerous articles, essays, and reviews in journals, books, and exhibition catalogues both in the United States and in Europe.

Courses:
Baroque Art in Southern Europe
Baroque Art in Northern Europe
Art in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting
History of Printmaking
Vermeer and Dutch Genre Painting
Seventeenth-Century English Court Culture

Wayne Franits's CV