UPDATE:
On March 16th, the RSA announced the cancellation of this year’s conference due to COVID-19 health concerns and travel challenges. Cancelled sessions can be rescheduled for RSA Dublin 2021. If you are registered for the conference, please look to an e-mail from the organization for details on reimbursement, documentation, and hotel cancellations.
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Historians of Netherlandish Art Sponsored panels at the Renaissance Society of American Conference, Philadelphia, April 2-4, 2020
Thursday, April 2, 9:00-10:30am
Netherlandish Printmaking Before Aux Quatre Vents: Professionalism in the Graphic Arts, ca. 1500–50
Organizers: Marisa Bass and Jeroen Luyckx
Chair: Edward Wouk
Presenters:
Brooks Howard Rich, Affinities Between Anonymous Hands: Untangling the Engravings of Monogrammist AC and Master S
Femke Speelberg, Cornelis Bos: Navigating the International Print Market as an Itinerant Printmaker
Jeroen Luyckx, For the Emperor and the Market: Cornelis I and Willem Liefrinck in Augsburg and Antwerp
Thursday, April 2, 2:00-3:30pm
Patronage in Northern Europe Between Reformation and Counter-Reformation (1517-ca. 1600)
Organizers: Marisa Bass, Catherine Ingersoll, Ruben Suykerbuyk
Chairs: Catherine Ingersoll, Ruben Suykerbuyk
Presenters:
Ragnhild M. Bø, Making and Meaning-Making: The Antwerp Altarpiece in Ringsaker (Norway) across the Reformation
Elizabeth Mattison, Making the Reformation Reliquary: Patronage in the Prince-Bishopric of Liège
Sophie Suykens, Framing the Book of Genesis: Philip II’s Border Designs for the “Story of Noah”
Wiebke Windorf, Between Representation and Passion in the Denominational Age: Germain Pilon’s Sculptures for the Valois Chapel
Friday, April 3, 4:00-5:30pm
Speaking for Images: Word and Image in the Dutch Golden Age
Organizers: Marisa Bass, Lieke Van Deinsen
Chair: Martine Van Elk
Presenters:
Claudia Swan, The Painter’s Work: Pictorial Precedents for Rembrandt’s 1626 History Painting
Djoeke van Netten, Speaking about Maps: Text and Image in Atlases and Pilot Guides
Ineke Huysman, The Shape of Prince Maurits’s Goatee: Constantijn Huygens’s Correspondence with Artists
Lieke Van Deinsen, Speaking Likenesses: The Interplay of Image and Text in Seventeenth-Century Portrait Frontispieces
Saturday, April 4 11:00am-12:30pm
The Miniature In and Around the Low Countries
Organizers: Marisa Bass, Elizabeth Mattison, Isabelle Lecocq
Chair: Elizabeth Mattison
Presenters:
Lara Yeager-Crasselt, The Monumental on a Small Scale: Rembrandt’s Bust of a Bearded Old Man
Katherine Baker, All the Small Things: Ivory Miniatures in the Early Sixteenth Century
Isabelle Lecocq, Found in Translation from Monumental Windows to Small Pieces of Painted Glass
There are a number of additional panels that will be of interest to our members. See the full program here.
HNA Members are also invited to the Reception jointly hosted by the Italian Art Society and the Historians of Netherlandish Art.