Abstract
Today's practice of art history has many flavours and colours. This chapter sketches the general outlines of the history of the discipline as it developed in the Netherlands, devoting attention in particular to the significance of seventeenth-century art for Dutch art history, research into De Stijl, the fruitful relation in the Netherlands between architectural history and art history, the innovative turn of the 1970s, and the current state of affairs. The actual start of art history as a discipline in the Netherlands is a subject of debate. In archaeology the integration of cultural heritage approaches and cultural historical approaches and Dutch archaeology, which has always been embedded more in the social and natural sciences, has proven to be very productive, not only because of the cross-fertilization between these disciplines, but also because it has stimulated reflection on other approaches. Keywords:art history; cultural heritage; De Stijl; innovation; Netherlands
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