Volume 16.2 (Summer 2024) of the refereed, open-access Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art (jhna.org) is published. In this issue, three articles provide new insights into visual culture in addressing Jesuit emblems and two key paintings by Rembrandt van Rijn.
Editors’ Greeting
H. Perry Chapman, Jacquelyn N. Coutré, Bret Rothstein, Joanna Woodall, Alison Kettering
“Before Our Lord like a Blank Canvas before a Painter”: The Cult of the Cor Jesu and its Flemish Emblematic Origins
Walter S. Melion
Rembrandt’s Standard Bearer: On Costume, Comedy, and Self-Portrayal, ca. 1627–1637
Eric Jan Sluijter
Against the Mirror: Indeterminacy and the Poetics of Painting in Rembrandt’s Woman Bathing in a Stream
Michael Zell