The popular idiom “God created the world, but the Dutch created Holland” refers to the origin story of The Netherlands as a land reclaimed from the sea. Dikes, polders, pumps, and dunes have had a [...] Read More
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NKJ 75 Table of Contents Available, 2025 Issue to be published July 23
The Dutch Americas: Art Histories of the Atlantic World Editors: Aaron M. Hyman, Stephanie Porras, Natasha Seaman, and Edward H. Wouk The Dutch West India Company – [...] Read More
Call for Applications: Getty Research Institute 2026/27 Residential Grant
In recent years the study of provenance has expanded in urgency and scope, in line with the art historical turn toward the lives of objects, and also in response to evolving debates regarding the [...] Read More
Summer volume of Oud Holland published
Summer issue Oud Holland 138 (2025) 1 25 June 2025 Oud Holland presents a new issue with three articles that show how important international networks were for the development [...] Read More
New issues of Simiolus and The Rijksmuseum Bulletin published
A new issue of Simiolus,has been published: Simiolus. Netherlands quarterly for the history of art Volume 46, number 1 In the present issue of Simiolus, Stephan Kemperdick critically reviews [...] Read More
CFP: Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice,
The ERC-StG PRAYER project is organizing the conference ‘Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800’, which will take place 1-3 July 2026 in Leiden and aims to shed new [...] Read More