HNA’s podcast series, hosted by Angela Jager and Marsely Kehoe, brings art historians and related scholars into conversation to highlight new work and projects. On this page, you will find links to listen to the episodes as well as references that are mentioned in that episode, with links where possible.
You can listen to the episodes here as they are published, or you can subscribe via Spotify, Stitcher, Google, and Apple.
The music you hear at the beginning and end of the podcast is a clip from Jan Pietersz. Sweelinck’s Fantasia cromatica, performed by John Zielinski, 2020, available as CC BY-NC 4.0. You can find the full recording here.
Episode 1: Judith Noorman and Frima Fox Hofrichter
Listen here: This episode is also available via podcast streaming services. This conversation was recorded in February 2021, and discusses women as artists and consumers in the early modern art market and recent projects of Judith and Frima.
Mentioned literature:
Woman, Aging, and Art: A Crosscultural Anthology, edited by Frima Fox Hofrichter and Midori Yoshimoto (Bloomsbury 2021). (link)
Gouden vrouwen van de 17de eeuw : Van kunstenaars tot verzamelaars, edited by Judith Noorman (WBOOKS 2020). (link)
Paul Crenshaw, ‘Frans Hals’s Portrait of an Older Judith Leyster’, in: Frima Fox Hofrichter and Midori Yoshimoto, Woman, Aging, and Art: A Crosscultural Anthology (Bloomsbury 2021).
The Montias Database of 17th Century Dutch Art Inventories: https://research.frick.org/montias
Weixuan Li, “Artists and the Creative Urban Space: Deep-Mapping Painters’ Locations and Houses in Golden Age Amsterdam.” University of Amsterdam, forthcoming in 2022.
Frima Fox Hofrichter, “An Intimate Look at Baroque Artists,” in Framing the Family: Narrative and Representation in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods, ed. Diane Wolfthal and Rosalynn Voaden. 143–46.
Mentioned art works:
Doll house of Petronella de la Court, 1670-1690, Centraal Museum Utrecht
Judith Leyster (attributed to), Self-portrait, c. 1653, private collection (link)
Judith Leyster, Self-Portrait, c. 1630, National Gallery Washington (link)
Judith Leyster, The Serenade, 1629, Rijksmuseum (link)
Judith Leyster, Boy playing the flute, Nationalmuseum Stockholm (link)
Judith Leyster, Man Offering Money to a Young Woman, 1631, Mauritshuis (link)
Exhibition:
Slavery, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (Summer 2021)
TAGS: Petronella de la Court, doll house, inventories, Judith Leyster, household, painting consumption, aging
Episode 2: Celeste Brusati and Walter Melion
Listen here: This episode is also available via podcast streaming services. This conversation was recorded in May 2021, and discusses the translation of Karel van Mander’s and Samuel van Hoogstraten’s treatises on art.
Mentioned literature:
Celeste Brusati and Jaap Jacobs, ed. and trans. Samuel van Hoogstraten’s Introduction to the Academy of Painting; or, The Visible World (Getty Research Institute Publications, 2021). (link)
Original publication: Samuel van Hoogstraten, Inleyding tot de hooge schoole der schilderkonst, anders de zichtbaere werelt (Rotterdam, 1678)]
Walter Melion, ed. and trans. Karel van Mander’s Groundwork of the noble and free art of painting (forthcoming in 2022).
Original publication: Karel van Mander, Het Schilder-boeck: Deel 1 Den Grondt der Edel vry Schilder-const (Haarlem, 1604) [The Book of Painting: Part 1 Groundwork of the Noble Free Art of Painting]
Walter Melion, Shaping the Netherlandish Canon: Karel van Mander’s ‘Schilder-Boeck’ (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1991).
Franciscus Junius, De pictura veterum libri tres (Amsterdam, 1637). [The Painting of the Ancients in Three Books (London, 1638); De Schilder-konst der Oude begrepen in drie boecken (Middleburgh, 1641; 1659)]
Mentioned art work:
Rembrandt, The Night Watch, 1642, Rijksmuseum (link)
Episode 3: Marije Osnabrugge and Abigail Newman
Listen here: This episode is also available via podcast streaming services. This conversation was recorded in June 2021 and discusses two recent publications, edited by Marije and Abigail.
Just after Many Antwerp Hands was published late this summer, the renowned Rubens scholar, Arnout Balis (1952–2021), who had contributed a chapter to the book, passed away unexpectedly (link to memorial).
Featured publications:
Marije Osnabrugge, ed. Questioning Pictorial Genres in Dutch Seventeenth-Century Art: Definitions, Artistic Practices, Market & Society. Gouden Eeuw. New Perspectives in Dutch Seventeenth-Century Art 2 (Brepols, 2021). (link with table of contents)
Abigail D. Newman and Lieneke Nijkamp, eds. Many Antwerp Hands: Collaborations in Netherlandish Art (Harvey Miller/Brepols, 2021). (link with table of contents)
Listeners can download an order form for both books with this link: https://bit.ly/HNAPODCAST, which includes a 20% discount and free shipping until Jan. 15th, 2022.
References:
H. Perry Chapman, et al., Jan Steen: Painter and Storyteller (Rijksmuseum/National Gallery of Art, 1996).
Wayne Franits, Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting: Its Stylistic and Thematic Evolution (London/ New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004).
Anne T. Woollett and Ariane van Suchtelen, eds., Rubens & Brueghel: A Working Friendship (Los Angeles/The Hague: J. Paul Getty Museum/Mauritshuis, 2006).
Cultural Transmission and Artistic Exchanges in the Low Countries, 1572-1672: Mobility of artists, works of art and artistic knowledge, directed by Karolien de Clippel and Filip Vermeylen between 2009 and 2014 (link to project)
Un siècle d’Or? Repenser la peinture hollandaise du XVIIe siècle, directed by Jan Blanc between 2017 and 2022 (link to project)