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 5: Yvonne Bleyerveld and Alexa McCarthy
Listen here: This episode is also available via podcast streaming services. This conversation was recorded in April 2022, and discusses drawing on blue paper.
Referenced material:
McCarthy, Alexa. “Carta azzurra / blauw papier: Drawing on Blue Paper in Italy and the Netherlands, ca. 1450–ca. 1660.” PhD Dissertation. University of St Andrews, 2022.
Kolfin, Elmer, and Epco Runia, eds. Black in Rembrandt’s Time. Exhibition Catalogue. Museum Het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam. Zwolle: W Books 2020.
Jacob Adriaensz Backer, Seated Black Woman, Half-Nude, with Raised Arm, c. 1645–1650, drawing, Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett.
Rijksmuseum, Drawing Out Rembrandt (DORE).
Bleyerveld, Yvonne and Ilja Veldman, with contributions by Michel Plomp and Bert Schepers, The Netherlandish drawings of the 16th century in Teylers Museum. Leiden: Primavera Pers, 2016, esp. 101-145 (by Ilja Veldman).
Voorn, Henk. De geschiedenis der Nederlandse papierindustrie. 3 vols. Haarlem: De Papierwereld, 1960–1985.
Fowler, Caroline O. The Art of Paper: From the Holy Land to the Americas. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2019.
Brahms, Iris. “Schnelligkeit als visuelle und taktile Erfahrung: Zum chiaroscuro in der venezianischen Zeichenpraxis.” In Technische Innovationen und künstlerisches Wissen in der Frühen Neuzeit. Edited by Magdalena Bushart and Henrike Haug. Vienna, Weimar, and Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2015, 204-229.
Reznicek, Emil. Die Zeichnungen Von Hendrick Goltzius, Mit Einem Beschreibenden Katalog. Utrecht: Dekker & Gumbert, 1961.
Hendrick Goltzius, Portrait of Gillis van Breen, print, 1586–1590, Rijksmuseum.
Frans Floris, The Allegory of Touch, drawing, c. 1560, Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest.
Van den Brink, Peter, Pieter Biesboer, and Bernd Wolfgang Lindemann. Cornelis Bega: Eleganz und raue Sitten. Exhibition Catalogue. Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen; Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. Stuttgart: Belser, 2012.
Houbraken, Arnold, De Groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen, 1718–1721.
Joris van der Haagen, View of The Forest of The Hague, 1644, pen and brown ink on grey-blue paper, 453 x 565 mm, Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt (thank you to Rhea Block, Curator at the Fondation Custodia, for permission to share this image)
Maarten van Heemskerk, Self-Portrait with the Colosseum, oil on canvas, 1553, Fitzwilliam Museum.
de Lairesse, Gerard, Het Groot schilderboeck, 1710.
Additional sources:
Burns, Thea. “Making Space for the Materiality of Blue Paper.” Dans Claude Laroque (dir.) Histoire du papier et de la papeterie, Actualités de la recherche – II, Paris, site de l’HiCSA, mis en ligne en décembre 2020, 70-84. https://hicsa.univ-paris1.fr/.
Knipe, Penley. “Making Blue Paper in the French Countryside.” Harvard Art Museums, 2020. https://harvardartmuseums.org/article/making-blue-paper-in-the-french-countryside.
McCarthy, Alexa. “Govert Flinck’s Figure Studies on Blue Paper: The Role of Materials in Stylistic Development.” In Gezeichnete Evidentia: Zeichnungen auf kolorierten Papieren in Süd und Nord von 1400 bis 1700. Edited by Iris Brahms. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022, 197-216.
McCarthy, Alexa, ed. Venice in Blue Online Exhibition. University of St Andrews, 2021.
McCarthy, Alexa, Laura Moretti, and Paolo Sachet, eds. Venice in Blue: The Use of Carta azzurra in the Artist’s Studio and in the Printer’s Workshop, ca. 1500–50. Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, forthcoming in 2023.
Noorman, Judith, and David de Witt. Rembrandt’s Naked Truth: Drawing Nude Models in the Golden Age. Exhibition Catalogue. Museum Het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam. Amsterdam: Museum Het Rembrandthuis; Zwolle: W Books, 2016.
Sachet, Paolo. “Exploiting Antiquarian Sale Catalogues: A Blueprint for the Study of Sixteenth-Century Books on Blue Paper.” La Bibliofilia 122, no. 1 (2020), 465-480.
Episode 4: Geoffrey Haider-Badenhorst, Carrie Anderson, and Marsely Kehoe
Listen here: This episode is also available via podcast streaming services. This conversation was recorded in January 2022 and discusses digital Dutch art history.
Featured projects:
Geoffrey Haider-Badenhorst (website), Furniture and Silver from the Dutch East and West India Company regions (in Dutch, link to project)
Carrie Anderson and Marsely Kehoe, Visualizing Textile Circulation in the Dutch Global Market, 1602-1795, www.dutchtextiletrade.org
Mentioned people, artworks, and references:
Talitha Schepers, doctoral fellow assisting with Visualizing Textile Circulation project
Anonymous, Cradle, c. 1700, Rijksmuseum BK-1966-48 (link to artwork)
Herman Doomer, Cupboard, c. 1635-c.1645, Rijksmuseum BK-1975-81 (link to artwork)
After Andries Beeckman, Mixed-race woman, c. 1675-c. 1725, Rijksmuseum NG-2016-37-14 (link to artwork)
Chao Tayiana Maina, “History is hiding – Digital humanities and the formation of historical empathy in archival practice,” keynote address for Global Digital Humanities Symposium, April 12-15, 2021 (link to event)
Hendrik Rennebaum, with Januarij van Bengalen?, Sirih box, 1775-1780, Kunstmuseum Den Haag inv. no. 0154568 (link to artwork)
Miki Sugiura, “The Economies of Slave Clothing in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Cape Colony.” 104–129 in Dressing Global Bodies: The Political Power of Dress in World History, ed. Beverly Lemire and Giorgio Riello (London: Routledge, 2019).
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)
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 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