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
Conferences & Events
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
Call for Papers from the Association of Print Scholars for RSA 2026
In addition to the Historians of Netherlandish Art call for session proposals, we also share this announcement on behalf of our colleagues at the Association of Print Scholars CALL FOR [...] Read More
CFP: Renaissance Society of America, 2026 (San Francisco, California 19-21 February 2026)
HNA is able to sponsor four sessions at next year’s Renaissance Society of America conference in San Francisco, California 19-21 February 2026. Sponsored sessions can be either traditional paper [...] Read More
Dialogue and Discourse: Warrior Women: Depictions of Biblical Heroines in Rembrandt’s Time
Thursday, May 29 6:30 – 8 pm EDT Scheuer Auditorium, The Jewish Museum New York The Mildred and George Weissman Program Join us for a panel discussion exploring Rembrandt's depictions of [...] Read More
Curating Baroque Art in the 21st Century
Philip Rahtz Lecture Theatre, Kings Manor, University of York, UK, Jul 09, 2025, 4–6pm. All welcome, no ticket required. The period of Western art history known as “the Baroque” has traditionally [...] Read More