CFP: Half the World Away: Cultural Circulations between Isfahan and the Early Modern Low Countries (Session at HNA, Cambridge/London, 10-13 Jul 2024)
When Shah ‘Abbas I made Isfahan his imperial capital in 1597, he wished to put Safavid Persia at the centre of the global economy, building the Image of the World Square (Maydan-e Naqsh-e…
CFP: Netherlandish Migrant Artists and the Emergence of Creativity in Late Seventeenth-Century London (Session at HNA 2024, London/Cambridge, 10-13 Jul 2024)
According to creativity expert Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, creativity is the result of a system combining three elements: “a culture that contains symbolic rules, a person who brings novelty into the symbolic domain and a…
CONF: Intermediaries? Women in the artistic spheres, between actions and constraints: 17th-18th centuries (Paris INHA, 8 Jun 2023)
While the figure of the woman artist in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries has been the subject of research interest for several years, the role of women as intermediaries within the various artistic…
ANN: The Montias Database of 17th-Century Dutch Art Inventories – Exploring 17th-Century Dutch Domestic Interiors Digitally (Frick Collection NY / online, 21 Mar 2023, 12:30 EDT)
Join the Frick Art Reference Library for lunchtime talks spotlighting how the data in The Montias Database of 17th-Century Dutch Art Inventories can be used digitally by art historians to glean new insights.
CFA: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Summer Institute 2023 (28 July – 11 August 2023)
In summer 2023, the Rijksmuseum, RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, Center for Netherlandish Art (CNA) at MFA Boston, and Harvard Art Museums will co-facilitate the Summer Institute for Netherlandish Art, a…
STIP: Center for Netherlandish Art Fellowships 2023 / 2024 (Center for Netherlandish Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
The Center for Netherlandish Art (CNA) seeks applicants for the CNA Fellowship Program for object-based research into Netherlandish art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. These Fellowships are full-time appointments for a…
CONF: Artists Agents and Patrons from the Low Countries in the Iberian World (Brussels, 9 Dec 2022)
The Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA) is organizing a study day to further clarify our understanding of the artistic exchanges and influences that took place between the Low Countries and the Iberian…
CFP: Rubens in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Antwerp, 9-10 Feb 2023)
Rubens was one of the first Flemish masters who engaged with reproducibility to distribute his oeuvre to a broader audience. After his death, reproductions of his work gradually multiplied, as did the (private)…
CFP: Variety, Variation, Multiplication in Premodern Art (TU Berlin, 13-15 Apr 2023)
Printed images and moulded artworks have one thing in common: they refer to an “original form” to which they stand in a complex relationship. Produced in a mechanical process with the help of…