Are you headed to RSA in Chicago March 21-23? Below is a list of the sessions sponsored by HNA as well as other talks and sessions of interest to HNA members. If you are presenting and we have missed your talk, please let us know and we can add your presentation to the list. We hope to see you at the sponsored sessions!
HNA-sponsored sessions at RSA-Chicago 2024
With thanks to Ed Wouk for compiling this list.
Session Title: Early Netherlandish Painting: New Interpretations and New Discoveries I
Organizer: Diane Wolfthal
Chair: Maryan Ainsworth
Time: Thursday, March 21, 2:30-4:00 pm
Session Papers:
1. Archetypal Marriage in the Ghent Altarpiece (Presenter: Andrea Pearson)
2. Rolin’s Purse (Presenter: Diane Wolfthal)
3. An Innovative Approach to Representing the Human Body in the Netherlandish Art around 1470 (Presenter: Thomas Kren)
Session Title: Early Netherlandish Painting: New Interpretations and New Discoveries II
Organizers: Diane Wolfthal, Anne van Oosterwijk
Chair: Diane Wolfthal
Time: Thursday, March 21, 4:30-6:00spm
Session Papers:
1. Bosch’s Architecture in Hell (Presenter: Lynn Jacobs)
2. Noah as a role model (Presenter: Anne van Oosterwijk)
3. The Fine Line Between Representation of Mortals and Holy Figures in a Painting by Gossart (Presenter: Maryan Ainsworth)
Session Title: Philip the Good, Isabella of Portugal, and the European Networks of Burgundy
Organizer: Till-Holger Borchert
Chair: Till-Holger Borchert
Time: Friday, March 22, 3:30-5:00pm
Session Papers:
1. The Importance of Being an artist at Phillipe the Good’s court (Presenter: Oskar Rojewski)
2. A good relationship serving fruitful artistic exchanges: Philip the Good and Alfonso the Magnanimous (Presenter: Elsa Espin)
3. Courtly Patronage in Savoy (1416-1465): artistic identity at a crossroad between Burgundy, France and Italy (Presenter: Alix Buisseret)
Session Title: Worlding the Early Modern Netherlands: Global Routes of Mobility and Cultural Intersection
Organizers: Adam Sammut, Braden Lee Scott
Chairs: Adam Sammut, Ana Howie
Respondent: Stephanie Porras
Time: Saturday, March 23, 11:00am-12:30pm
Session Papers: 1. Cultural Fluidity or Divide? Seventeenth-Century Dutch Conceptions of Indonesia’s Chinese and Muslim Urban Artefacts (Presenter: Sim Hinman Wan)
2. Encounter Objects (Presenter: Claudia Swan)
3. Trigger Networks: Mother-of-Pearl Inlay and the Hunting Rifles of Cornelis Tromp (Presenter: Caroline LaPorte-Burns)
Other sessions and papers likely to be of interest to HNA members (partial list):
All’antica; Antique Reception and the Visual Arts II: Northern Europe
Thursday, March 21, 2024
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Palmer House Hilton – Kimball Room – Third Floor
Collecting and Recollecting: The Myriad Allusions to Antiquity in Constcamer Paintings
Floor Koeleman, University of Lausanne
Welsch, Deutsch, and the All’antica Alternative in Early Modern Germany
Dr. Rachel M. Carlisle, University of Alabama in Huntsville
All’antica as Modernity: Architectural Experiments of the Dielegem Altarpiece
Dr. Stefaniia Demchuk, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Cultural Transfers from the Low Countries to Florence
Saturday, March 23, 2024
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Palmer House Hilton – Dearborn 1 – Seventh Floor
Rogier van der Weyden’s Uffizi Lamentation: An Improvisation on a Theme
Dr. Marina Gemma Belozerskaya, Fowler Museum at UCLA
Searching for Flanders in Florentine Household Archives, 1388–1500
Lorenzo Vigotti, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna
The Image of Flemish Architectural Culture in Florentine and Tuscan Written Sources
Caterina Cardamone, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
The “Other” Florentine Nation: The Tuscan Military Presence in Flanders (1543–1621)
Maurizio Arfaioli, Medici Archive Project
Renaissance Intermediality I: Sixteenth-Century Netherlands
Friday, March 22, 2024
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Palmer House Hilton – LaSalle 1 – Seventh Floor
Drawing, Sculpture, and Theatre: the Bruges Mantelpiece to Charles V
Ethan Matt Kavaler,
Reflections of Theatrical Architecture in Sixteenth-Century Netherlandish Visual Media
Mr. Eyal Eyal Pundik, University of Toronto
Affective Remontage: On Jan Borman’s St. George Altarpiece
Heath Valentine, University of Toronto, Canada
Renaissance Intermediality II: The Mobile Sixteenth Century
Friday, March 22, 2024
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Palmer House Hilton – LaSalle 1 – Seventh Floor
Holbein, Massys, and the “I” in Design
Dr. Marisa Anne Bass, Yale University
Fugitive Prints: A Huguenot Glassmaker and His Intermediate Etchings
Carolyn Yerkes, Princeton University
Fossils in Renaissance: Images and Media between Art and Nature
Dr. Robert Felfe, Universität Hamburg; Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
Portraits and Placemaking III: Portraits, Identity, Memory
Saturday, March 23, 2024
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Palmer House Hilton – Clark 3 – Seventh Floor
Rubens and the Redemption of Tunis: Mulay Ahmet as Balthasar in St. John’s Church, Mechelen
Adam Sammut FRHi, University of York
Making Spaces, Mapping Faces: Power, Gender, and Identity in a 1635 Dutch Map
Saskia Beranek, Illinois State University
Portraits and Placemaking IV: Identity, Memory, and the Social Imaginary
Saturday, March 23, 2024
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Palmer House Hilton – Clark 3 – Seventh Floor
“For Memory and Decoration”: Group Portraits as Placemakers in Early Modern Amsterdam
Dr. Norbert Middelkoop, Amsterdam Museum, Netherlands
Creating Narratives: A Contextual Reading of Frans Hals’ Willem van Heythuysen’s Portraits
Aagje Lybeer, School of Art History University of St Andrews; University of St. Andrews and Ghent University
The “Place” of Dress in Rubens’ and Van Dyck’s Genoese Feminine Portraiture
ana Cristina Howie, Cornell University
Non-Cloistered Religious Women: Northern European Local Contexts
Thursday, March 21, 2024
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Palmer House Hilton – Sandburg 4 – Seventh Floor
Devotional Objects in the Vitae of Five Religious Laywomen of the Thirteenth Century Low Countries
Joseph George Akl, Université de Montréal, Canada
Distinctive Devotion: Exploring an Unusual Liturgical Book of Dutch Franciscan Tertiaries
Lila Rice Goldenberg, University of Pennsylvania
Individual Papers
Behind Closed Doors: Femininity and the Collector’s Space in the Early Modern Netherlands
Hannah McIsaac Boston University
Thursday, March 21, 2024
11:20 AM – 11:40 AM
Palmer House Hilton – Salon 6 – Third Floor
“Ottoman Woman Seated”: Netherlandish Album Production at the Habsburg Embassy Elçi Hanı in Constantinople/Istanbul Talitha Scheepers, Harvard Art Museums
Friday, March 22, 2024
10:30 AM – 10:50 AM
Palmer House Hilton – Sandburg 7 – Seventh Floor
Reflections of Theatrical Architecture in Sixteenth-Century Netherlandish Visual Media
Eyal Eyal Pundik University of Toronto
Friday, March 22, 2024
1:50 PM – 2:10 PM
Palmer House Hilton – LaSalle 1 – Seventh Floor
Dress and Disorder: Jesters in Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Art
Martha Hollander Hofstra University
Saturday, March 23, 2024
11:40 AM – 12:00 PM
Palmer House Hilton – Dearborn 2 – Seventh Floor
The Better Half: Uncovering Netherlandish Women in Early Modern Diplomacy
Nina Lamal The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Saturday, March 23, 2024
9:00 AM – 9:20 AM
Palmer House Hilton – Salon 5 – Third Floor
Money, Materiality, and Artistry: Reimagining Merchants and Occupational Portraits in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp
Sunmin Cha Columbia University
Friday, March 22, 2024
3:30 PM – 3:50 PM
Palmer House Hilton – Burnham 4 – Seventh Floor
Top of Form Hugo Van der Goes’ Trinity Altarpiece in the Trinity College Kirk, Edinburgh
Giovanna Guidicini Glasgow School of Art
Saturday, March 23, 2024
9:20 AM – 9:40 AM
Palmer House Hilton – Dearborn 2 – Seventh Floor
Rogier van der Weyden’s Uffizi Lamentation: An Improvisation on a Theme
Marina Gemma Belozerskaya Fowler Museum at UCLA
Saturday, March 23, 2024
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM Palmer House Hilton – Dearborn 1 – Seventh Floor
Early Modern Printed Images Assembled in the Iconographic Collection of Father Charles Cahier, SJ
Gwendoline de Muelenaere UCLouvain
Saturday, March 23, 2024
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Palmer House Hilton – Sandburg 2 – Seventh Floor
The Eclipse of Nature: Natural Destruction in the Kunstkammer of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II
Jessica Keating, Carleton College
Saturday, March 23, 2024
9:00 AM – 9:20 AM
Palmer House Hilton – Burnham 1 – Seventh Floor
Reading Suriname’s Colonial Nature: German and Dutch Interpretations
Giovanna Montenegro Binghamton University, SUNY
Saturday, March 23, 2024
9:20 AM – 9:40 AM
Palmer House Hilton – Sandburg 7 – Seventh Floor
“Von Jerusalem gebracht:” Objects from the Holy Land in the Wunderkammer of Bernardus Paludanus (1550–1633).
Marika Keblusek, Leiden University
Thursday, March 21, 2024
4:50 PM – 5:10 PM
Palmer House Hilton – Wilson Room – Third Floor
Goltzius as Glazer: Re-evaluating Hendrick Goltzius’ Oeuvre through the Lens of Glass Art
Mats Dijkdrent Université catholique de Louvain
Friday, March 22, 2024
6:10 PM – 6:30 PM
Palmer House Hilton – Salon 2 – Third Floor