Coinciding with LBIF’s WORKS ON PAPER Exhibition Reception, this talk will offer a behind the scenes look at the planning of a forthcoming exhibition on Rembrandt van Rijn’s lifelong interest in ancient Greece, Rome, and the larger Mediterranean world.

Joanna Sheers Seidenstein is Associate Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this role, she is responsible for Northern European drawings and prints from the Renaissance through the early twentieth century. Since starting in 2022, she has co-curated various permanent collection installations and the special exhibition Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature on view in the spring of 2025. She previously held positions at The Frick Collection and the Harvard Art Museums, where she curated and co-curated such exhibitions as Divine Encounter: Rembrandt’s Abraham and the Angels (Frick, 2017) and Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape (Harvard, 2022). Joanna is co-editor of the volume Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Atlantic Slave Trade: Curating Histories, Envisioning Futures (Brill, 2025). She holds a BA from Vassar College and an MA and PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU.