CFP: Moving Dutch Knowledge: Collections as Knowledge Repositories and Sites of Transformation and Transfiguration (ANKK sponsored session at the HNA Conference 2024 – London/Cambridge, 10-13 July 2024)
Both the Southern and Northern Netherlands were a mighty hub for art, culture, trade, and, ultimately, knowledge. Much of the latter has been preserved in objects as well as in the context in…
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.
STIP: Historians of Netherlandish Art Research Fellowships 2023
Current HNA members are eligible to apply for a 2023 HNA Fellowship. The topic of the research project must be within the field of the art and architecture of the Netherlands (Dutch and…
CONF: 17th Century Foreign Insights on Dutch Art (University of Geneva, 17-18 Mar 2022)
Registration is now open for “The Envy of some, the Fear of others, and the Wonder of all their Neighbours” Seventeenth-Century Foreign Insights on Dutch Art, the final conference of the project Un siècle d’Or? Repenser la peinture hollandaise…
ANN: New blog post from the Julius Böhler Archive, by Birgit Jooss (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich; in German)
A painting in a gilt frame titled „Bread and Butter“ (“Butterbrot“) arrived on 30 July 1929 from Berlin at the well-known Munich art gallery Julius Böhler (est. 1880). The artist is recorded as…
CFP: Close Encounters – Cross-Cultural Exchange between the Low Countries and Britain 1500-1800 (RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, The Hague, Sep 22, 2022)
The risks and challenges of migration are of compelling interest today. Over the last thirty years, research on early modern artists’ migration and on cultural exchange between the Low Countries and Britain has…
PUBL: Eric Jan Sluijter, Jan van Goyen: Virtuoso, Innovator, and Market Leader (Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, vol. 13.2, 2021)
This augmented translation of an influential essay from the catalogue for the 1996 exhibition Jan van Goyen, now translated by Nicolette Sluijter-Seijffert, examines the strategies and innovations – in style, subject matter, technique, and price level – that…
CFP: Confronting Colonialism in Dutch Art, Session at RSA Dublin (Dublin, 31 Mar-2 Apr 2022)
In recent years, the study of early modern European visual and material culture has focused increasingly on colonial expansion and its consequences. This session aims to address the impact of this trend on the study…
CONF: Amsterdam and Rembrandt: New Research (online / National Gallery of Canada, 16 June 2021, 11am-1pm EDT)
The Rembrandt in Amsterdam exhibition traces the central decades of Rembrandt’s career, from his arrival in Amsterdam to the emergence of his late style in the mid-1650s, in the transformative context of the dynamic city that…