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Dutch art historian (born 1931)

Eduard Siegfried"Eddy"de Jongh (Amsterdam, 7 June 1931) is a Dutch art historian specialized in iconography.

He was professor of art history with a teaching assignment in iconography at Utrecht University between 1976 and 1989.^[1]

Career

De Jongh (1931) studied art history in Utrecht with Jan G.

van Gelder and William S. Heckscher. Between 1963 and 1966 he was librarian of the Utrecht Art History Institute, later working there as a teacher and research assistant.

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From 1966 to 1973 he was part of the Center for Advanced Study in Art History. In 1976 he was appointed professor of iconology and art theory at Utrecht University, a position he held until 1990. In 1976 he was guest curator of the exhibition Tot lering en vermaak^[2] ('To instruct and entertain') at the Rijksmuseum.

Central to this exhibition was the idea that signs in paintings provide explanations for the (moral) meaning of the art. Th