Johan Rudolph Justus van Asperen de Boer’s career and scientific contributions span several academic fields. It was as a physicist and conservation scientist that he developed the technique of [...] Read More
HNA News
Call for Applications – JHNA Editor-in-Chief
Currently in its twelfth year, Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art is well-established as a premier peer-reviewed, online-only publication in the history of art. The Editor-in-Chief supervises [...] Read More
Call for Papers: In Sickness and in Health: Pestilence, Disease, and Healing in Medieval and Early Modern Art
14th Annual Imago Conference, University of Haifa, January 12, 2021 In light of the global turmoil caused by the COVID-19 epidemic, the 14th Annual Imago conference will examine the cultural and [...] Read More
Dankzij Waller / Thanks to Waller
The art historian and print expert François Gérard Waller (1867-1934) is one of the Rijksmuseum’s greatest benefactors. During his life he donated to the museum his extensive collections of decorated More Info
In Memoriam: Jane Campbell Hutchison (1937-2020)
Jane Hutchison received her MA in Art History from Oberlin College in 1958 under Wolfgang Stechow and her PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1964 under James S. Watrous, with a [...] Read More
In Memoriam: J. Richard Judson (1925-2020)
July 5, 1925–June 29, 2020 I first met J. Richard Judson as I sat in a darkened classroom at Smith College. I was seeing art in a new way as Jud led us through a painting. I will talk about his [...] Read More
Call for Papers: The Afterlife of Medieval Sculpture
Ards 7th annual colloquium on Current Research in medieval and renaissance sculpture December 2-4 2020, London* in collaboration with the Courtauld Institute of Art, the V&A Museum and the [...] Read More
JHNA publishes enhanced version of Summer 2019 issue
The Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art announces the publication of an enhanced version of the Summer 2019 issue (v.11:2) [...] Read More
Renaissance Children
For the Burgundian and the early Habsburg princes, Mechelen was not only an important political and cultural hub but also an educational centre. Three consecutive generations of Habsburg princes and More Info
Assistant Teaching Professor of Art History, Ball State
The School of Art at Ball State University welcomes applications for an Assistant Teaching Professor of Art History to begin August, 2020. This is a full-time contract faculty [...] Read More
Inaugural HNA Mentorship Program
HNA is pleased to announce a new mentorship program designed to foster connection between historians of Netherlandish art at different phases of their careers. The current global pandemic and the [...] Read More
Call for Submissions: Imaginary Places, Real Territories
Imaginary places, real territories. Territorial imagery and the creation of a Dutch identity (1579-1702) Symposium at INHA (Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art), Paris December 16th and 17th, [...] Read More
In Memoriam: Anthony Bailey (1933-2020)
Anthony Bailey was a longtime New Yorker magazine writer who wrote about Rembrandt, J. M. W. Turner and other artists. He died from the novel coronavirus. He has been remembered in the New York [...] Read More
Call for HNA-Sponsored Sessions at RSA Dublin 2021
HNA is able to sponsor four sessions at next year’s Renaissance Society of America conference in Dublin (7-10 April 2021). Sponsored sessions should address topics of interest to the HNA community. [...] Read More
Facelifts & Make-overs: Restoration at the Mauritshuis
Very few people know that there is a conservation studio in the Mauritshuis attic. A team of in-house conservators works there, dedicating their time to conservation, restoration and research and More Info