Proposal deadline extended: College Art Association Chicago, February 12-15, 2020 Long understudied in early modern Northern art and visual culture, the male nude is attracting new kinds of [...] Read More
HNA News
New Issue of Early Modern Low Countries vol. 3:1 (2019) Now Online
The latest issue of the multidisciplinary open-access journal Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) is now available online! EMLC is dedicated to the study of the history and culture of the Low Countries [...] Read More
Discounted Titles from Davaco Publishers for HNA Members
Davaco Publishers has recently implemented a deep discount on their titles, particularly the Aetus Aurea series, published 1980-2010. In addition, HNA members receive an additional 10% off until 31 [...] Read More
Dr. Christopher Atkins named director of MFA’s Center for Netherlandish Art
Christopher Atkins has been named as the inaugural Van Otterloo-Weatherbie Director of the Center for Netherlandish Art (CNA), an innovative center for scholarship on Dutch and Flemish art of the [...] Read More
Colloquium: Vision and Speculation in the Art of Pieter Bruegel
The only Pieter Bruegel event in France in this anniversary year will take place 28-29 June, 2019, in Paris. The colloquium is organized by Michel Weemans, Colette Nativel, Ralph Dekoninck, and papers [...] Read More
In Memoriam: Hessel Miedema
“a second lifetime would have been necessary, but I shall not be granted this…”[1] Last month the eminent and incredibly productive art historian Hessel Miedema passed away. In art historical [...] Read More
Fourth Rembrandt Donated to the Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen’s University
Linda and Daniel Bader have donated Rembrandt van Rijn’s Head of an Old Man with Curly Hair (1659) [Corpus VI, no. 276] to the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in honour of Daniel’s late father [...] Read More
CFP: Bulletin KIK-IRPA, Netherlandish and Belgian Art History and Heritage Conservation Journal
The Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK/IRPA) is honoured to announce the call for papers for the Bulletin 36. Deadline: Dec 31, 2019 Bulletin KIK-IRPA : a Netherlandish and Belgian Art [...] Read More
Job opening, Ghent University
Job Opportunity: Professor in Art History, Specialized in the Study of Exhibitions and Display at Ghent University Ghent University has a vacancy for a professor in art history who specializes [...] Read More
Conference: Art as Commodities/Commodities as Art, June 14th
University of York Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building June 14, 2019, 9:30am-7:00pm When art makes the headlines, it is usually about money. In 2017, Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi sold for over [...] Read More
In Memoriam: Joop van Coevorden
Joop van Coevorden passed away on Monday, April 15th, 2019 after a battle lost to lung cancer. He was 82 years old. For nearly forty years Joop’s publishing company, Davaco (named after his [...] Read More
Caravaggio’s Medusa to join exhibit of Utrecht Caravaggisti in Munich
Last week—quite literally at the eleventh hour—the Bavarian State Painting Collections received news that the Italian Ministry of the Interior and the authorities for cultural-heritage protection in [...] Read More
Lecture and Panel Discussion: “Slavery and Freedom in New Netherland”
On April 27, the Senate House State Historic Site (Kingston, NY) hosts the talk "To Serve in a Free Country: Slavery and Freedom in New Netherland" by Sam Huntington, educator at Crailo State Historic [...] Read More
New Netherland Research Center Grant for Scholar in Residence
The New Netherland Research Center (NNRC), a joint endeavor of the New Netherland Institute (NNI) and the Office of Cultural Education, New York State Education Department (NYSED/OCE), with financial [...] Read More
Conference: The Contribution of Artistic Genres to the Construction of the Dutch Golden Age
The second project conference of the Université de Genève's project, Un siècle d'Or? Repenser la peinture hollandaise du XVIIe siècle will take place June 6-7, 2019 at the Frans Halsmuseum in [...] Read More