The Summer 2021 issue (vol. 13.2) of the refereed, open-access Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art (jhna.org) is published. With this issue, H. Perry Chapman takes over as Editor in Chief; Alison Kettering assumes the new position of Past Editor in Chief.
Table of Contents
JHNA Conversations 1: Expanded and Expanding Narratives in the Museum. Within the framework of a roundtable discussion moderated by Yao-Fen You of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, curators Elizabeth Cleland, Alejandro Vergara, and Bert Watteeuw explore recent successes and challenges in presenting art historical narratives that strive towards broader material, geographical, linguistic, and cultural representation in the museum.
C. Richard Johnson, William A. Sethares, and Margaret Holben Ellis, Overlay Videos for Quick and Accurate Watermark Identification, Comparison, and Matching: Creating and Using Overlay Videos. This essay uses watermarks in Rembrandt’s prints to introduce simple, open-source image processing software that allows scholars to create animated overlays to compare and match two watermark images with a high degree of accuracy. Embedded GIFs, or toggled videos, afford readers the ability to move seamlessly between one image and another while reading the accompanying text.
Marisa Mandabach, Matter as an Artist: Rubens’s Myths of Spontaneous Generation. Focusing on three images of spontaneous generation by Peter Paul Rubens, this essay argues that Rubens’s learned concepts of nature were informed by an artisanal understanding of the generative role of matter—pigments and mediating liquids—within painting.
Eric Jan Sluijter, translated by Nicolette Sluijter-Seijffert, Jan van Goyen: Virtuoso, Innovator, and Market Leader. This augmented translation of an influential essay from the catalogue for the 1996 exhibition Jan van Goyen examines the strategies and innovations—in style, subject matter, technique, and price level—that Van Goyen used to position himself as a leader in the art market. JHNA publishes peer-reviewed original scholarship, across a range of methodological approaches, on Dutch, Flemish, German, and Franco-Flemish art and material culture dating from the medieval period through the eighteenth century. We also publish state of research and critical essays, as well as English translations of significant articles originally published in other languages. JHNA welcomes the submission of manuscripts from scholars at every career stage. We also encourage proposals for state-of-research and critical essays. See our newly revised Submissions guidelines.
H. Perry Chapman, University of Delaware, Editor in Chief
Jacquelyn N. Coutré, Art Institute of Chicago, Associate Editor
Dagmar Eichberger, Universität Heidelberg, Associate Editor
Bret Rothstein, Indiana University, Associate Editor
Alison M. Kettering, Carleton College, Past Editor in Chief
Correspondence about submissions can be sent to editor@jhna.org.