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Changes on CODART board: Rudi Ekkart leaves, Emilie Gordenker and Jan Hoekema take office

30 November 2008

With the expiration of his term of office, Rudi Ekkart has left the board of CODART. He remains an advisor to CODART. The board has been reinforced with the membership of Emilie Gordenker, director of the Mauritshuis, and Jan Hoekema, mayor of Wassenaar and major figure in Dutch international... More...

CODART website new feature: curator in the spotlight now online

30 November 2008

CODART website new feature: curator in the spotlight now online. The first curator to contribute is Anna Tummers of the Frans Hals Museum. More...

Complete, searchable online edition of Sandrart's Teutsche Academie now available

21 November 2008

A collaborative project called Sandrart.net has put online the complete contents, with all illustrations, of one of the most important sources in art history, the Teutsche Academie der Edlen Bau-, Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste published by the German artist Joachim von Sandrart (1608-88) between 1675... More...

Blaise Ducos takes Ph.D. at Université de Picardie - Jules Verne in Amiens with dissertation on Frans Pourbus the Younger

21 November 2008

With his successful defense of the dissertation "Frans Pourbus le Jeune (1569-1622): entre Habsbourg, Médicis et Bourbons," Blaise Ducos, curator of Dutch and Flemish painting at the Louvre, was awarded a doctor's degree. He has announced his intention of publishing his book at the earliest... More...

Rembrandt in Southern California launched by Getty Museum in collaboration with four sister institutions

17 November 2008

On 12 November 2008 the Getty Museum launched Rembrandt in Southern California, a virtual exhibition intended to stimulate both residents and visitors alike to explore the remarkable holdings of Rembrandt paintings in the area. Initiated by the Getty, it is a long-term collaborative project... More...

Historians of Netherlandish Art (HNA) announce call for sessions for 2010 conference in Amsterdam

11 November 2008

The theme of the coming HNA conference is “Crossing Boundaries.” The meeting is to take place in Amsterdam on 27-29 May 2010. More...

Untraced work by the Danish artist Melchior Lorck is sought by editors of catalogue raisonné of the master's work

10 November 2008

A request from Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen of the Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle outside Copenhagen for help with a research project on the Danish engraver Melchior Lorck, who worked for some time in the Netherlands. More...

Keizerskapel in Antwerp opened as museum on Sunday afternoons

26 October 2008

Starting on 28 October 2008, the 16th-century chapel in the Keizerstraat in Antwerp known as the Keizerskapel will be open for visits. The chapel has been acquired by CODART member Jean-Pierre De Bruyn, co-author of an exhaustive study of the monument. More...

Museum of Fine Arts Boston seeks curatorial research assistant for paintings in the Art of Europe Department

22 October 2008

One of the qualifications for the opening at the MFA for a curatorial research assistant is knowledge of Dutch, German and/or Spanish. More...

Tate Britain secures Rubens oil sketch of Apotheosis of James I for ceiling of Whitehall Banqueting House

22 October 2008

After a public fundraising campaign to purchase and retain for Britain Rubens's preparatory sketch for a ceiling painting in Whitehall Banqueting Palace, Tate Britain was given enough additional support on the eve of the deadline to make the purchase. More...

Call for articles for new electronic Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art (HNA)

20 October 2008

Historians of Netherlandish Art is pleased to announce the inauguration of an electronic Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art (JHNA) at www.jhna.org. The first issue will contain peer-reviewed articles and appear in June 2009. The journal will be published two times per year. Deadline for... More...

Lecture by Anita Jansen on Michiel van Mierevelt and his studio, 6 November 2008 in Delft

18 October 2008

As part of a major research campaign at Museum Het Prinsenhof in Delft into the production and more specifically the reproduction of portraits in the studio of the Delft master Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt (1567-1641), the museum restorer Anita Jansen is holding a lecture (in Dutch) on 6 November... More...

Stedelijk Museum Zwolle celebrates its 125th anniversary on 30 October

18 October 2008

Opened 125 years ago as the Geschiedkundig Overijsselsch Museum (Overijssel Historical Museum), then renamed Provinciaal Museum Overwijssel and in 1996 Stedelijk Museum Zwolle, the museum is holding a festive day for its present and past officials and employees, friends and the public on 30... More...

Complete Willem Witsen website to be launched on 22 October

17 October 2008

A consortium of institutions - the Royal Library, the library of the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Institute for Art History, the Willem Witsen Foundation, the Huygens Institute and the Digital Library of Dutch Literature - are launching a website on the work, life, writings and... More...

Historians of Netherlandish Art (HNA) announces fellowship up to $1,000 available for HNA members

13 October 2008

Historians of Netherlandish Art (HNA) is making a fellowship available for an amount up to $1,000 available for HNA members for a research project in Northern European art 1400-1800. Deadline for applications 1 December 2008. More...

Scheringa Museum acquires portrait of Charley Toorop, 1932, by her son Edgar Fernhout

11 October 2008

The Scheringa Museum for Realism announced on 1 October its acquisition of a rare portrait of Charley Toorop by her son Edgar Fernhout. (Compare her self-portrait of 1928 in the current exhibition in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.) More...

Frick Collection offers Andrew W. Mellon Predoctoral Curatorial Fellowship

11 October 2008

A two-year predoctoral fellowship is available from September 2009 to August 2011 for one "outstanding doctoral candidate" at the Frick Collection. The deadline for applications is 20 January 2009. More...

Amsterdams Historisch Museum acquires Ruisdael View of Amsterdam in honor of Pauline Kruseman

8 October 2008

In honor of Pauline Kruseman, who is retiring as director of the Amsterdams Historisch Museum at the end of the year, the museum has acquired an important View of Amsterdam by Jacob van Ruisdael. The initiative for the acquisition was taken by Simon Levie, who preceded Kruseman by 20 years as... More...

New director of Metropolitan Museum of Art as of 1 January 2009 is CODART member Thomas Campbell

1 October 2008

On 9 September 2008 the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that Thomas P. Campbell, a member of CODART since 2004, has been named director as of 1 January 2009, succeeding Philippe de Montebello on his retirement. Campbell will be the ninth director of this great institution since its founding in... More...

Symposium on Dutch/Flemish seascape painting in National Maritime Museum in Greenwich shortened to one day, 14 November 2008

30 September 2008

The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich has announced that its symposium Turmoil and tranquillity, previously announced for 13-14 November 2008, has been shortened to 14 November alone. Those interested in attending are urged to register at their earliest convenience. More...

Dordrechts Museum reacquires Jan van Goyen View of Dordrecht from Goudstikker Collection

30 September 2008

As a result of the assignment to the heirs of Jacques Goudstikker of the paintings from the collection of the late art dealer, the Dordrechts Museum had to relinquish a major view of Dordrecht (1651) by the Dutch landscape painter Jan van Goyen (1596-1656). The painting had been on loan to the... More...

Call for papers on Burgundian court culture

25 September 2008

The museums of Bruges and the universities of Louvain and Nijmegen have announced an international conference to be held on 12-14 May 2009 in connection with the exhibition on the era of Charles the Bold to be held in the Groeninge Museum in Spring and Summer 2009. The organizers have issued a call... More...

Mauritshuis to receive substantial increase in subsidy, will open new entrance and offices

20 September 2008

The Mauritshuis has announced that it is to receive a considerable subsidy from the Dutch government, which will allow it to build a new entrance to the museum as well as new offices and other facilities in Plein 26, across the street from the museum. The new spaces are to be connected to the... More...

Five paintings stolen from Frans Hals Museum in 2002 are recovered

16 September 2008

The five paintings stolen from the Rijksmuseum in March 2002 have been recovered by the police and returned to the museum. More...

Rijksmuseum seeks head of department of fine art

9 September 2008

The Rijksmuseum is seeking a head for its Department of Fine Art, one of the three curatorial departments of the museum. An initial contract of one year is offered, renewable for two years before being converted into a permanent appointment. Deadline for applying: 12 October 2008. More...

Rijksmuseum seeks junior curator of furniture

9 September 2008

The Fine Arts Department of the Rijksmuseum has announced a job opening for a junior curator of furniture for a period of two years. Deadline for applying: 30 September 2008 More...

Luxembourg seeking curator of Old Masters for renewed Villa Vauban

6 September 2008

The city of Luxembourg has advertised an opening for the position of curator of Old Masters at one of the prime city museums, in Villa Vauban. The deadline for applications is 10 October. More...

Symposium announced for 4-5 December 2008 in Amsterdam: Art after iconoclasm: painting in the Netherlands between 1566 and 1585

1 September 2008

Dr. Koenraad Jonckheere of the University of Amsterdam extends an open invitation to a symposium on 4-5 December 2008 on a major subject to which too little attention has been paid in art history. More...

Book on painting on stone by Hana Seifertovà

30 August 2008

Founding CODART member Hana Seifertovà has published a pioneering work on the technique of painting on stone in the 16th and 17th centuries. Most of her examples come from Italian art, but Flemish paintings also play a role in this international practice. More...

Rijksmuseum seeks head of department of history

29 August 2008

The Rijksmuseum has announced an opening for a major management-curatorial function, head of the department of history. More...

CODART team changes: Navany Almazan leaves for a job with the Public Prosecution Office, Brenda Schooneveld and Jennifer Cardona assume new positions

28 August 2008

CODART's longstanding associate, Navany Almazan, who has been with CODART for five years, is taking a step further in her career and will begin working at the Public Prosecution Services in Amsterdam on 15 September 2008. Brenda Schooneveld, who has worked for CODART since the beginning of this... More...

Two-year study of Mondrian's Victory Boogie Woogie in Gemeentemuseum Den Haag to be rounded off by symposium

28 August 2008

In 1998 the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag acquired Piet Mondrian's last, unfinished painting Victory Boogie-Woogie. Starting in 2006, the large, complex painting has been subjected to an intensive study by the museum, the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage and the mobile laboratory MOLAB. The... More...

Call for papers on 17th-century sculpture of the Low Countries for congress in Brussels from 13 to 15 March 2009

27 August 2008

The Low Countries Sculpture Society is holding a three-day conference following the opening of the TEFAF, for which it invites papers. The deadline for submitting proposals is 3 September 2008. More...

Paul Spies to succeed Pauline Kruseman as director of Amsterdams Historisch Museum

21 August 2008

The supervisory board of the Amsterdam Historical Museum (AHM) has announced that upon the retirement of Pauline Kruseman on 1 January 2009, after 17 years as director, she will be succeeded by the art historian Paul Spies, founder and co-director of D'ARTS, a prominent, pioneering bureau for the... More...

Israel Museum is given an important painting by Jozef Israëls

19 August 2008

The Israel Museum in Jerusalem has announced that an Italian Jewish family has donated to the museum an important painting by Jozef Israel (1824-1911). The painting, dated 1890, measures a large 172 x 136 cm. It depicts fisherwomen of Zandvoort. More...

Rijksmuseum seeks cataloguer for digital registration and online presentation of prints and drawings

14 August 2008

The Rijksmuseum is looking for a cataloguer to register prints and drawings in the print room for the museum's own digital inventory and to improve the presentation of work on paper to the public via Internet. The function entails full-time work for two years. More...

New electronic journal on Netherlandish art to be published by Historians of Netherlandish Art (HNA): call for articles

13 August 2008

Historians of Netherlandish Art is pleased to announce the inauguration of an electronic Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art (JHNA) at www.jhna.org. The first issue will contain peer-reviewed articles and appear in June 2009. More...

Call for papers on Jacob Jordaens

5 August 2008

A new volume in the series of Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies in Art is to be devoted to the Flemish master Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678). Proposals for papers requested before 15 October 2008. More...

German Historical Museum in Berlin opens database of the objects intended by Adolf Hitler to enter his museum in Linz

1 August 2008

The German Historical Museum (Deutsche Historische Museum; DHM), in coooperation with the State Office for Central Services and Public Ownership Issues (Bundesamt für zentrale Dienste und offene Vermögensfragen; BADV) have made the entire image database of the "Special Linz... More...

Research group reveals to the eye overpainted portrait beneath van Gogh landscape

31 July 2008

The Universities of Delft and Antwerp, working with the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Hamburg and the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, have announced spectacular results in making an overpainted head beneath a van Gogh landscape in the Kröller-Müller Museum visible to the eye. More...

CODART Courant 16 published

30 July 2008

CODART Courant 16 (Summer 2008) was mailed to subscribers in July 2008. The pdf version is available freely to all those interested. More...

Getty Research Institute announces theme year 2009/10 on the display of art: call for applications

28 July 2008

From the website of the Getty Research Institute, 28 July 2008 The display of art Theme year at the Getty Research Institute and Getty Villa More...

Rembrandt portrait of Jan Six to be displayed every summer in the Rijksmuseum

21 July 2008

Rembrandt's incomparable portrait of Jan Six, now owned by a foundation chaired by the sitter's direct descendant Jonkheer Jan Six van Hillegom, has always been relatively inaccessible, in the house at Amstel 218 where the Six family lives and keeps its collection. The family has long argued that... More...

Prado and Fondácion Carlos de Amberes join forces in exhibitions and research

17 July 2008

The largest and smallest Madrid institutions on the CODART list have signed an agreement that will lead to furthergoing cooperation than they already maintain. The Prado, with its stunning collection of early Netherlandish and Flemish art, and the Carlos de Amberes Foundation, a 17th-century... More...

Dresden Gemäldegalerie honors Annaliese Mayer-Meintschel on her 80th birthday with a Festschrift

14 July 2008

The Dresden museums have honored the former and long-time director of the Gemäldegalerie, Annaliese Mayer-Meintschel, with a volume of essays by her former and present colleagues, to mark her 80th birthday. The presentation of the volume took place on 26 June 2008. CODART adds its... More...

Amsterdams Historisch Museum publishes fully illustrated catalogue of paintings up to 1800 and launches website where they are featured

8 July 2008

The Old Master paintings belonging to the city of Amsterdam have been published in a complete catalogue for the first time and put on a new section of the museum website. Many of the paintings are reproduced in color for the first time. More...

Anna Tummers to succeed Pieter Biesboer as curator of Old Masters at the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem

3 July 2008

From the museum website, 3 July 2008 (translated by CODART) Anna Tummers curator of Old Masters at Frans Hals Museum Haarlem As of 1 November 2008 Anna Tummers (1974) will be the new curator of Old Masters at the Frans Hals Museum. She will succeed Pieter Biesboer, who is retiring. Tummers... More...

New director of Rijksmuseum, Wim Pijbes, enters function and intimates nature of re-opening exhibition in 2013

1 July 2008

Today the new director of the Rijksmuseum, Wim Pijbes, took on his function. Yesterday evening he gave an interview on Dutch radio about his plans for the largest art museum in the country. (Met het oog op morgen, 23:00-24:00, 30 June.) The Rijksmuseum is in the throes of an overlong... More...

Dresden museums seeking new director for old master paintings section

27 June 2008

For the directorship of the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister the Dresden museums are accepting applications until 30 June 2008. Please see http://www.codart.nl/images/DEDresden2008DirectorGemaeldegalerie.jpg (The announcement sent to us by the museum also contains a second job opening, at the... More...

Call for papers from Dublin for symposium City limits: urban identity, specialisation and autonomy in 17th-century Dutch art

22 June 2008

The School of Art History and Cultural Policy, University College Dublin and National Gallery of Ireland have announced a symposium on local and urban features in Dutch art, to be held in Dublin on 25 April 2009. The deadline for the call to papers is 1 November 2008. More...

Marieke Spliethoff receives high distinction for her work on the Orange-Nassau collections

19 June 2008

On Wednesday, 18 June 2008, the curator of paintings at Paleis Het Loo, CODART member Marieke Spliethoff, was given a high distinction in the House Order of Orange. More...

Edwin Buijsen appointed Head of Collections at the Mauritshuis

11 June 2008

Museum press release The Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis is pleased to announce the appointment of Edwin Buijsen (46) as Head of Collections effective 1 September. Buijsen has been working at the RKD (Institute for Art History) in The Hague since 1995, in recent years as Curator of Research and... More...

Bert Meijer to be succeeded as director of Netherlands Institute in Florence by Michael Kwakkelstein

10 June 2008

As of 1 September 2008, the Netherlands Interuniversity Institute for Art History in Florence (NIKI) will have a new director. Prof. Dr. Bert Meijer is retiring after 32 years as director of the NIKI. He will be succeeded by Dr. Michael Kwakkelstein. More...

Publisher Wim Waanders adds to Lions Club award to donate aquarel by Hague School artist Gabriel to the Stedelijk Museum Zwolle

9 June 2008

Publisher Wim Waanders was the winner in 2007 of the Johan Cele Award granted each year by the Lions Club in Zwolle. The winner is given an amount of money to spend on a cultural aim. Wim Waanders doubled the amount in order to be able to buy for the Stedelijk Museum Zwolle an important aquarel by... More...

Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage (ICN) moves its research laboratories to the Rijksmuseum studio building

6 June 2008

ICN press release ICN permanently in three locations During the week of 2 - 6 June 2008, the research laboratories of the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage (ICN) were moved to the new Ateliergebouw (‘Studio building’), Hobbemastraat 22 in Amsterdam. The Ateliergebouw, opened by... More...

Earliest series of portraits of counts of Holland discovered in Antwerp

4 June 2008

NRC Handelsblad has published images of the earliest known portraits of the counts of Holland from a herald's book in the Hendrik Conscience Library in Antwerp. Now dated by medievalist Wim van Anrooij to 1456, they antedate the well-known series of wall paintings in the town hall of Haarlem by a... More...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art joins the list of major contributors to CODART as Maecenas

3 June 2008

CODART is very pleased to announce that we recently received a generous donation from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Following the Rijksmuseum and the Vlaamse Kunstcollectie, the Met is the third major institution on the list of CODART Maecenasses. More...

Director Anne d'Harnoncourt of the Philadelphia Museum of Art has passed away

3 June 2008

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has announced the sudden death of its long-time director, the greatly admired and deeply loved Anne d'Harnoncourt. More...

Paintings by Jacob Backer sought by Peter van den Brink

31 May 2008

Peter van den Brink is preparing a monograph and exhibition on Jacob Adriaensz. Backer. Certain paintings that are recorded in the literature or documentation are no longer traceable. Van den Brink would appreciate any information that you can provide concerning the following works. More...

Walter Liedtke's catalogue of the Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art receives highest honor from Association of Art Museum Curators

31 May 2008

The Association of Art Museum Curators bestowed its 2007 Award for Excellence for the best catalogue of a permanent collection to CODART member Walter Liedtke for his two-volume catalogue of the Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. CODART congratulates our member, who hosted a... More...

Call for papers: Nature and science in Dutch 17th-century painting in Trier (5-6 December 2008)

28 May 2008

The art-history department of the University of Trier, Germany, is holding a symposium on 5-6 December 2008 on Nature and science in Dutch 17th-century painting. Proposals for papers can be submitted until 1 July 2008. See http://www.codart.nl/exhibitions/details/1741/. More...

Flemish government seeks director for Flanders House in New York

25 May 2008

In order to promote Flanders in the US and to support the Flemish presence in the country, the Flemish government has established an institute in New York, Flanders House (FHNY). Now that the institute has been set up under American law, Flanders is seeking a director for FHNY. The announcement of... More...

Catharijneconvent honored by European Museum of the Year 2008 for re-installation

18 May 2008

On 17 May 2008, at the annual of meeting of European Museum of the Year, Queen Fabiola of Belgium awarded a prize to Museum Het Catharijneconvent for its recently completed re-installation. More...

Exceptional historical estate in Twente, Kasteel Twickel, seeks new director

13 May 2008

Wegens pensionering van de huidige beheerder zoeken wij een nieuwe Beheerder buitenplaats Twickel. More...

Bruce Museum shows highlights of Goudstikker collection

10 May 2008

The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, presents an exhibition of rarely seen Old Master and other paintings drawn from the collection of Jacques Goudstikker, who was the preeminent dealer of Old Master paintings in Amsterdam prior to World War II. Tragically, he died in an accident while... More...

Centraal Museum and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen announce joint Abraham Bloemaert exhibition in 2010

7 May 2008

Abraham Bloemaert 1566-1651 In the fall of 2010 the Centraal Museum in Utrecht and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam will jointly organize a major exhibition on the ‘Rubens of the North’, also known as ‘The Father of the Utrecht School of Painting’. More...

Best-attended exhibitions of Dutch/Flemish art in 2007 as listed by the Art Newspaper

6 May 2008

In its March issue, the Art Newspaper published its annual listing of exhibition attendance figures. Of the top 15 exhibitions worldwide, three showed work by Dutch artists. More...

Groeningemuseum presents new acquisition: the Wijts Triptych, a copy after the last, lost painting of Jan van Eyck

25 April 2008

The Groeningemuseum has put on display its recent acquisition, the Triptych of Petrus Wijts, following months of close study. This copy after Jan van Eyck's last painting was bought at a London auction in the summer of 2007. It forms an important addition to the collection of early Netherlandish... More...

Van Gogh Museum announces first volume of Van Gogh Studies

25 April 2008

Chris Stolwijk, head of research at the Van Gogh Museum, has announced the initial volume of a new series. More...

Kimbell Art Museum acquires major flower still life by Jacques de Gheyn II

23 April 2008

The Kimbell Art Museum announced today the acquisition of a major painting by Jacques de Gheyn II (1565-1629), one of the founders of flower painting in the Netherlands. Vase of Flowers with a Curtain, dated 1615, is one of the artist’s largest known flower paintings, measuring 43 ¼ x 29 ¼... More...

Catalogue of 2006 Rubenshuis exhibition "Royalist refugees" nominated for Berger Prize for British Art History

21 April 2008

The catalogue of the 2006 exhibition Royalist refugees: William and Margaret Cavendish in the Rubenshuis, 1648-1660 has been nominated for the 2007 William MB Berger Prize for British Art History More...

Kees Zandvliet leaving Rijksmuseum for Amsterdams Historisch Museum

19 April 2008

Announcement by the Amsterdams Historisch Museum Hoofd Presentaties & Nieuwe Media Met ingang van 1 juli a.s. is dr. Kees Zandvliet (1953) benoemd tot Hoofd Presentaties & Nieuwe Media van het Amsterdams Historisch Museum. More...

Dutch/Flemish issue of Wallraf-Richartz Jahrbuch

19 April 2008

The 2007 volume of the Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch is largely devoted to Dutch/Flemish subjects, with articles by a number of CODART members. More...

Ferens Art Gallery acquires first Rembrandt

18 April 2008

13 Mar 2008 The Ferens Art Gallery is delighted to announce the acquisition of its first Rembrandt, the acknowledged master of Dutch 17th century art. More...

Director sought for Staatlichen Museum Schwerin

18 April 2008

The director of the Staatlichen Museum Schwerin, Cornelia von Berswordt-Wallrabe, is retiring and the Ministry of Culture of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is seeking qualified candidates for the post. The deadline for applying is 8 May 2008. More...

Christian Tico Seifert appointed Senior Curator Early Netherlandish, Dutch and Flemish Art at the National Gallery of Scotland

17 April 2008

Christian Tico Seifert (CODART associate, soon to be full member) is appointed Senior Curator Early Netherlandish, Dutch and Flemish Art at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. He succeeds Emilie Gordenker, new director of the Maurithuis, and will join the curatorial team at the National... More...

Symposium in Riga on Dutch-Baltic relations (23-25 April 2008)

17 April 2008

Next week a symposium is taking place in Riga on the age-old ties between the Netherlands and the Baltic lands. See the CODART page on the event. More...

Teylers Museum purchases rare drawing by Pieter Aertsen

16 April 2008

Teyler Museum has purchased a rare drawing by Pieter Aertsen (1507/08-1575) of the Destruction of the altar of Baal. More...

Call for information concerning Gabriël Metsu by Adriaan Waiboer

16 April 2008

For the completion of his dissertation on Gabriël Metsu, Adriaan Waiboer requires information on a number of paintings he has not been able to trace. Anyone who can provide information is requested to contact him. More...

Frans Hals Museum seeking new chief curator for old masters

10 April 2008

The Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem has issued the following announcement for a major job opening. More...

Albertina study room reopens today for scholars

2 April 2008

After a closing period of five years, the study room of the Albertina has been reopened in new form. There are 20 desks for researchers, provided with current for laptop computers. The study room has a reference library, current issues of journals and terminals for consultation of library... More...

Peter van der Ploeg leaves Mauritshuis for Waanders

31 March 2008

After a long-term curatorship at the Mauritshuis that began when he was a student, Peter van der Ploeg has decided to leave museum work to become a publisher. Starting on 1 April 2008, he will be director of publishing of the leading Dutch publisher of museum catalogues, Waanders Publishers in... More...

Retirement of Jan Piet Filedt Kok from the Rijksmuseum marked with symposium in Amsterdam, 28 March 2008

28 March 2008

At Felix Meritis on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, some 150 colleagues and friends honored Jan Piet Filedt Kok most warmly on his retirement from the Rijksmuseum after 33 years of distinguished service. More...

Call for papers for a congress on word and image as weapons

25 March 2008

The annual congress of the Werkgroep Zeventiende Eeuw is meeting this year in Amsterdam on 30 August at the University of Amsterdam Rare Book Library at Oude Turfmarkt 129. The theme is Word and image as weapons: news and propaganda in the 17th century. The organizers have issued the following call... More...

First annual meeting of the Arbeitskreis for study of Netherlandish art and culture taking place on 11-13 April

18 March 2008

The interim board of the ANKK - Arbeitskreis für niederländische Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte - has announced the program for the first annual meeting, to take place in Hamm and Münster on 11-13 April 2008. See page on the event in CODART directory. More...

Taco Dibbits succeeds Peter Sigmond as director of collections of the Rijksmuseum

4 March 2008

Taco Dibbits (39) will become the new director of collections of the Rijksmuseum on 31 May 2008, when Peter Sigmond (60) takes early retirement. Sigmond has worked for the Rijksmuseum since 1995. He became director of collections in 2002. Dibbits has worked at the museum since 2002. Presently he is... More...

Jennifer Cardona appointed CODART office manager

29 February 2008

CODART has appointed Jennifer Cardona (1977) as its new office manager. Jennifer was born and raised in the USA and presently lives in Utrecht in the Netherlands. She studied Interior Design at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia and Visual Culture at the University of Westminster in London. She... More...

Complete Luyken holdings of Amsterdam Historical Museum online

25 February 2008

Last week, the complete holdings of the Amsterdams Historisch Museum (Amsterdam Historical Museum) in the prints and drawings of Jan and Casper Luyken were put online. 12705 images by Luyken father and son are now available at Het geheugen van Nederland (The memory of the Netherlands), where there... More...

Yao-Fen You curator at Detroit Institute of Arts

24 February 2008

CODART member Yao-Fen You has been appointed Assistant curator of European sculpture and decorative arts at the Detroit Institute of Arts. She assumed her duties in Detroit this week. CODART congratulates a faithful member with her new appointment. More...

CODART to share a stand at TEFAF with the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD)

22 February 2008

To mark its 10th anniversary, CODART has taken a stand at the 2008 international art and antiques fair TEFAF, which will be held in Maastricht from 7 to 16 March. This is the first time CODART will be present at the fair, an initiative made possible by TEFAF, which became a CODART corporate sponsor... More...

Mauritshuis seeks head of collections

18 February 2008

The Mauritshuis in The Hague has an opening for a new head of collections, to succeed Peter van der Ploeg, who will leave the museum in April. Applications should be sent to the museum before 1 April. More...

CAA in Dallas: talks on Dutch/Flemish art

17 February 2008

From 20 to 24 February, the College Art Association is holding its 96th Annual Conference in Dallas, Texas. CODART members attending the conference will want to go to the business meeting and reception of Historians of Netherlandish Art (HNA). This will be a lunch buffet on Friday, February 22,... More...

Wietske Donkersloot appointed Mellon Fellow at the RKD and the Mauritshuis

13 February 2008

Wietske Donkersloot, presently senior associate of CODART, has been appointed Mellon Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD) and the Mauritshuis as of 1 March 2008. She will be engaged as project coordinator in the Mellon Pilot Project Technical documentation of Rembrandt... More...

Wim Pijbes to succeed Ronald de Leeuw as director of Rijksmuseum

8 February 2008

The Dutch media have announced that Wim Pijbes, presently director of the Kunsthal Rotterdam, has been chosen to succeed Ronald de Leeuw as director of the Rijksmuseum when de Leeuw retires later this year. More...

The Flemish Art Collection opens the treasure troves of 3 museums on internet

6 February 2008

Three major museums in Flanders - the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, the Groeninge Museum Bruges and the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, are pooling their resources in an internet presentation of their joint holdings. The website of the Flemish Art Collection contains a wealth of material and is... More...

Fellowships announced for research into Dutch maritime history

5 February 2008

The Vereeniging Nederlandsch Historisch Scheepvaart Museum, an independent association, was founded in 1916 and is the owner of one of the world’s leading maritime collections. The collection is on permanent loan to and managed by the Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum Amsterdam / Netherlands... More...

Görel Cavalli-Björkman succeeded by Karin Sidén as director of research at Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

24 January 2008

Museum announcement From February 1st 2008 Professor Görel Cavalli-Björkman retires from her position as Director of Research at Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. She will be succeded by Dr. Karin Sidén. Görel Cavalli-Björkman will be attach to the museum on a part time basis working on the... More...

57th Attingham Trust Summer School: deadlines are near

24 January 2008

In its effort to attract more curators of decorative arts and historical houses and to encourage them to work more closely with curators of what are called the fine arts, CODART is pleased call attention to the highly prestigious summer school run every year by the Attingham Trust. More...

“Accessorize...!” Rijksmuseum's first web exhibition

20 January 2008

On 20-21 January, the Rijksmuseum is launching its first web exhibition. It will display 250 of the best objects in the fashion accessory collection, from 1550 to 1950. The launching will be held at the Modefabriek (Fashion Factory) trade fair at the RAI, Amsterdam, on the 20th and 21st of January... More...

Städel Museum acquires Dirck van Baburen painting of a young man singing

8 January 2008

The Städel Museum in Frankfurt has announced the acquisition of an important painting by the Utrecht artist Dirck van Baburen (ca. 1595-1624). It shows a young man singing from a songbook on which the artist signed and dated the painting: D. Baburen fecit. An o 1622. More...

Mauritshuis acquires harbor scene by Jan van de Cappelle

7 January 2008

With the financial aid of public and private donors, the Mauritshuis has purchased a magnificent harbor scene by the leading Dutch seascape painter Jan van de Cappelle (1626-79). More...

NICE Paintings – the National Inventory of Continental European Paintings

3 January 2008

'NICE Paintings' contains detailed records of nearly 8,000 pre-1900 Continental European oil paintings from 200 public collections across the United Kingdom. Over 2,500 are illustrated with digital colour images, and more images are being added regularly. This pioneering database is the first phase... More...

Nationalmuseum in Stockholm receives Getty grant for study of Netherlandish, Dutch and Flemish drawings

27 December 2007

The Getty Foundation has awarded a substantial grant to the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm to perform in-depth research, including scientific examination, of its 1000-odd Netherlandish, Dutch and Flemish drawings of the 15th to the 18th century. More...

Hans Nieuwdorp shares in Arthur Merghelynck Award for Art History

14 December 2007

On 23 November 2007 the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique honored the authors of vol. 20 of the Corpus de la peinture du 15e siècle dans les Pays-Bas, among them CODART member Hans Nieuwdorp, with the Arthur Merghelynprijs for Art History. More...

Stolen seascape by Bonaventura Peeters recovered

7 December 2007

Roger Quarm of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich has let us know that the seascape by Bonaventura Peeters stolen last month from the museum has been recovered by the police. See CODART News item of 19 November 2007. More...

Spectacular restoration of a Maerten van Heemskerck Lamentation of Christ in Budapest

30 November 2007

The lamentation of Christ by Maarten van Heemskerck in the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest (inv. nr. 4936) has been known so far in a heavily overpainted state. After an IR investigation the painting was restored in 2007. More...

Symposium on Amsterdam in the 17th century in newly opened Amsterdam city archive

29 November 2007

On December 7th, a free, one-day symposium will be held on Amsterdam in the 17th century. Advance registration recommended. More...

Budapest Museum of Fine Arts acquires "Writing man" by Pieter Quast

28 November 2007

A contribution by Zoltán Kovács More...

Tate Britain attempting to acquire Rubens sketch for Whitehall ceiling

8 November 2007

From the Art Newspaper, November 2007 More...

ING Real Estate supporting catalogue of Dutch paintings in National Gallery in Prague

5 November 2007

The following announcement, dated 2 June 2006, just came to the attention of CODART and is much too important not to post, despite the delay. ING Announcement ING Real Estate Development will give financial support to the production of a comprehensive scientific catalogue of all 600 the Dutch... More...

Detroit Institute of Arts reopening on 23 November

31 October 2007

The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is currently putting the finishing touches on its construction project which began in 2001. On 23 November the museum will reopen to the public, bringing its collection to life in new and exciting ways. When completed, the building will have extensive... More...

Request for reactions to large, high-quality but as yet unattributed Flemish painting in Warsaw: an appeal from Hanna Benesz

24 October 2007

The exhibition “Flemish painting of the Golden Age”, which will be on show in the Muzeum Narodowe (National Museum) in Warsaw between November 6th and December 31st 2007 (see www.zlotywiek.mnw.art.pl), opens with a monumental canvas, the form of which epitomizes all characteristic... More...

Fire destroys Armando museum

24 October 2007

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Symposium on Dutch art at CUNY Graduate Center in conjunction with exhibition at Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2 November 2007

23 October 2007

The legacies of Dutch art in the age of Rembrandt, a symposium in conjunction with The age of Rembrandt: Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art More...

Domestic culture in the Golden Age: a lecture in the Rembrandt House

9 October 2007

Museum announcement Wooncultuur van de Gouden Eeuw komt tot leven in het Rembrandthuis Lezing tijdens de Week van de geschiedenis (13 t/m 21 oktober 2007) More...

Rijksmuseum traveling exhibition rounded off successfully in the United States

6 October 2007

From September 2006 to September 2007, highlights of the Rijksmuseum collection of Dutch 17th-century art traveled to the following museums in the United States: More...

Ronald de Leeuw to step down as General Director of the Rijksmuseum in 2008

4 October 2007

Museum press release, 4 October 2007 More...

American Friends of the Mauritshuis invites applications for fellowship

2 October 2007

The American Friends of the Mauritshuis offers grants in the field of art history to support an academic project devoted to the study of Dutch and Flemish art from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Topics relevant to the history and collection of the Mauritshuis and travel to The... More...

Copies available of study by Netherlands ambassador to Sweden, A.F. van Dongen, concerning portrait of Johan Maurits van Nassau

29 September 2007

The Netherlands ambassador to Sweden, A.F. van Dongen, has performed extensive research on a portrait of Johan Maurits van Nassau that was donated to his embassy in 1939. The resulting publication, on a CD-ROM, is available at no charge to the first comers. Below is his statement on the project. More...

3 PhD positions at University of Utrecht/University of Amsterdam

26 September 2007

Utrecht University, Faculty of Arts and the Humanities The Research Institute for History and Culture in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam and the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam offers one full-time PhD position (project 1) and two part-time PhD positions (project 2) within the research... More...

Jewish art dealer's heirs claim 227 paintings from the Netherlands

24 September 2007

The legal heirs of the late Jewish art dealer Nathan Katz have filed a claim against Dutch museums for the return of 227 paintings which the Dutch state has permanently loaned to public museums. More...

Kunstmuseum Basel seeks curator of Old Master paintings

19 September 2007

Museum announcement Das Kunstmuseum Basel sucht für die Abteilung Alte Meister nach Vereinbarung eine/einen Konservatorin / Konservator Sie haben eine Promotion in Kunstgeschichte mit Spezialisierung auf europäische Malerei des 15.-18. Jahrhunderts, verfügen über... More...

Study day: Flemish and Dutch masters in the Brukenthal collection in Sibiu / Hermannstadt on Thursday 18 October 2007 in Ghent

17 September 2007

Location Het Pand Onderbergen 1 B-9000 Ghent T +32 9 264 8224 F +32 9 264 8394 E Press release More...

Queen Beatrix opens new Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD)

15 September 2007

Rudi Ekkart shows Queen Beatrix through the new Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD). On Friday morning, 14 September, Her Majesty Queen Beatrix opened the new quarters of the Netherlands Institute for Art History, the RKD. At a ceremony in the auditorium of the Royal Library, in... More...

Walter Liedtke, curator of European paintings of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, made Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau

13 September 2007

Walter Liedtke in the European painting galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2006 Photo: Gary Schwartz Information from the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs On Monday, September 10th, a dinner was offered by Accenture to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in honor... More...

National Gallery in Prague seeks help in tracing painting stolen in 1990

11 September 2007

Jan Martszen de Jonge (?), Battle scene Property of National Gallery in Prague On 23 February 1990 the above painting was stolen from Náchod Castle in the town of Náchod. It is the property of the National Gallery in Prague. The painting (canvas, 70 x 88.5 cm., Inv.no. O 9507... More...

Emilie Gordenker to succeed Frits Duparc as director of the Mauritshuis

28 August 2007

When Frits Duparc leaves the Mauritshuis at the end of the year, he will be succeeded by Emilie Gordenker. Dr. Gordenker is presently curator of early Netherlandish, Dutch and Flemish painting at the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh. She is a faithful member of CODART, where she... More...

Bruges museums buy 17th-century copy after Maelbeke Madonna by Jan van Eyck

27 August 2007

The town government of Bruges has announced that it approved the proposal of the Bruges museums to purchase a rare 17th-century copy after Jan van Eyck's Maelbeke Madonna, which was destroyed in the French Revolution. The purchase is the subject of several articles in the coming issue of the museum... More...

Symposium in Dortmund (20-22 November 2008) on Dutch-German artistic exchanges in the 17th century: a call for papers

23 August 2007

In November 2008 year the University of Dortmund is holding a symposium on Dutch-German artistic exchanges in the 17th century. The organizers invite submission of proposals for papers before 31 October 2007. More...

Ronald de Leeuw receives honorary doctorate from University of Melbourne

17 August 2007

Ronald de Leeuw is a charter member of CODART. He facilitated several CODART events in the Rijksmuseum and has supported us behind the scenes in important ways. We congratulate him on this signal honor. More...

Symposium on Dutch-Baltic relations in historical perspective, Riga (April 2008): call for papers

11 August 2007

The Dutch embassy in Riga, Latvia, and the National Historical Museum of Latvia, issued the following announcement on 8 August 2007: L.S., Preliminary to a formal notification, we take pleasure in bringing to your attention a symposium on Dutch-Baltic relations in historical perspective; we... More...

Rembrandt Year a resounding success for Dutch tourism

31 July 2007

The bureau responsible for Rembrandt 400 has issued a press release on the numbers of visitors to the exhibitions it helped coordinate. The bureau calls it the most successful cultural enterprise ever held in the Netherlands. More...

Rijksmuseum seeking applicants for three openings for work on vol. 2 of the scholarly catalogue of 17th-century paintings

24 July 2007

Het Rijksmuseum Amsterdam is een instelling voor kunst en geschiedenis die zich ten doel stelt zowel een representatief overzicht van Nederlandse kunst en geschiedenis vanaf de middeleeuwen als ook belangrijke aspecten van Europese en Aziatische kunst te tonen voor het nationale en internationale... More...

CODART study trip to New York, 28-29 October 2007

17 July 2007

On 28 and 29 October 2007 CODART and Walter Liedtke of the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, will organize a two-day CODART study trip on the occasion of the exhibition The age of Rembrandt: Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the publication of the first catalogue of those... More...

SHORT DEADLINE: Royal Collection announces job opening for assistant curator

11 July 2007

Assistant Curator Pictures The Royal Collection, St. James' Palace, London ca. £25,000 plus benefits A talented and hard-working Assistant Curator is sought to assist with the curatorial care and management of 8,000 paintings and 3,000 miniatures within the Royal Collection, which is... More...

Antwerp Museum receives grant from Getty Trust for Rubens research

8 July 2007

The Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (KMSKA) has announced that the Getty Trust in Los Angeles is funding a three-year research campaign on the Rubens paintings in the museum. The grant will cover archive research, photography and investigation of the techniques and materials of the... More...

Edwin Jacobs to be new director of Museum de Lakenhal in Leiden

2 July 2007

The Lakenhal Museum has announced that they have chosen a successor to Jetteke Bolten, who retired only a few weeks ago. Edwin Jacobs, who is presently a cultural broker for the township of Tilburg, will take over the directorship of the museum on 1 September. Previously Jacobs was director of... More...

Frits Duparc to retire as director of the Mauritshuis at the end of the year

18 June 2007

The Mauritshuis has announced that its director since 1991, Frits Duparc, a CODART member and supporter of the first hour, is retiring at the end of this year. More...

Tapestry cartoon and Spranger drawing acquired by Rijksmuseum

17 June 2007

The Rijksmuseum announced the recent acquisition of a tapestry cartoon of about 1545 of Scipio Africanus at Carthage. The cartoon was made in Brussels or Northern Italy. It also bought at auction a drawing by Barthelomeus Spranger (1546-1611) that served as preparation for an engraving by Jan... More...

Sir Oliver Millar dies at the age of 84

5 June 2007

From the Art Newspaper, June 2007 Sir Oliver Millar died on 10 May, aged 84. One of the UK’s most respected art historians, Sir Oliver was the first full-time curator employed by the Royal Household, first as Assistant Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, then as Depity Surveyor and finally in... More...

Zeeuws Museum in Middelburg reopened after eight years

4 June 2007

After a rebuilding and renovation campaign that lasted eight years, the Zeeuws Museum in Middelburg was reopened this afternoon by the governor of Zeeland, Karla Peijs. More...

Ron Spronk takes art history chair at Queen's University

31 May 2007

Technical art historian and long-standing CODART member Ron Spronk, formerly research curator at the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at the Harvard University Art Museums, was appointed professor of art history and head of the Department of Art at Queen's University in... More...

Rijksmuseum acquires icon of Dutch Nazi party

29 May 2007

Tomorrow the Rijksmuseum is to present its recent acquisition, The new man, painted about 1939 by Henri van de Velde. More...

Vermeercentrum Delft opened

23 May 2007

Wednesday afternoon, 23 May 2007, a new center for the presentation and appreciation of Johannes Vermeer and his art was opened in Delft, in the building on the Voldersgracht where the guild of St. Luke had its offices in the time when Vermeer was chairman. More...

Rembrandt's portrait of Jan Six: eye-catcher in the Mauritshuis this fall

18 May 2007

The Mauritshuis is extremely pleased with the Six Collection’s recent pledge to lend Rembrandt’s Portrait of Jan Six from 1654 for the exhibition Dutch portraits: the age of Rembrandt and Frans Hals (13 October 2007 to 13 January 2008). More...

Louvre website presents Jan van Eyck's Madonna with Chancellor Rolin in illustrated lecture

25 April 2007

The website of the Musée du Louvre features a number of chosen objects in illustrated art-historical lectures. Among them is a very nice presentation of Jan van Eyck's Rolin Madonna. More...

Theft from Hof van Busleyden in Mechelen of small painting attributed to David Vinckboons

23 April 2007

Last Friday, 20 April, a small hunting scene in the forest was stolen from the Hof van Busleyden in Mechelen. The panel measures 15 x 20 cm. The painting was part of the Joosen collection and was on permanent loan to the Mechelen city museums from the Schepenhuis. More...

Terèz Gerszi 80

21 April 2007

Today the charter member of CODART Terèz Gerszi reached the milestone age of 80, a year after the publication of her magnum opus on the Dutch and Flemish drawings in the Museum of Fine Arts of Budapest, where has worked for over 55 years. CODART wishes her a most joyful birthday and many happy... More...

Second Nord/Sud conference: call for papers

16 April 2007

NORD/SUD Padua, 25-26 October 2007 A message from the organizers More...

HNA issues call for papers for session on gender and the market at CAA 2008

12 April 2007

Gender and the Market in Netherlandish Art More...

Noordbrabants Museum buys self portrait by Willeboirts Bosschaert at TEFAF

4 April 2007

The Noordbrabants Museum in Den Bosch has announced that it has purchased, with aid from the Vereniging Rembrandt and the Mondriaan Stichting, a self-portrait by Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert (1613/1614-1654), an artist who is already represented in the museum collection with a Venus mourning over... More...

Nassau County Museum of Art issues call for papers for symposium on Flemish art and culture

29 March 2007

16th & 17th-century Flemish culture: art, literature, architecture, music, history More...

CAA meeting in 2008: sessions with CODART interest

29 March 2007

From 20 to 23 February 2008 the College Art Association is holding its 96th Annual Conference in Dallas, Texas. Descriptions of the sessions that may be of particular interest to CODART members have been copied to the following pdf: /images/CAA2008CallForPapers.pdf. More...

Amsterdam Maastricht Summer University announces a course on the painting techniques of Rembrandt and Rubens and their followers

28 March 2007

Historic painting techniques in oil: the confrontation between Rembrandt & Rubens Sunday, August 19, 2007 - Friday, August 24, 2007 Application deadline: Tuesday, 15 May 2007 Complete information from the AMSU website More...

CODART launches new design for home page

18 March 2007

As the first step in a revamping of the CODART website, the home page has been given a new design. The navigation bar is now located on a horizontal line at the top of the page rather than in a column on the left. The CODART map of the world has been replaced by a dynamic graphic feature - a work... More...

Call for applications for European Seminar for Curators (Paris, 11-16 June 2007)

7 March 2007

The European Seminar for Curators is an initiative launched in 2004 by the Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (Paris). It will bring together twenty European museum curators in Paris from Monday 11th June to Saturday 16th June 2007 inclusive with the aim of pooling their knowledge,... More...

RKD holds symposium on art historians and their archives (10 May 2007)

5 March 2007

As part of its celebration of the 75th birthday of its founding, the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD) is holding a symposium on the archives of a number of art historians: In het spoor van de onderzoeker: de kunsthistoricus en zijn archief als onderwerp van onderzoek (On the trail of the... More...

CODART to move from Amsterdam to The Hague

2 March 2007

On the first of April, CODART will leave its original offices at the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage in Amsterdam for the Netherlands Insitute for Art History in The Hague. More...

HNA joins the Renaissance Society of America and issues a call for papers at its session at the 2008 RSA conference

1 March 2007

Stephanie Dickey, the vice-president of Historians of Netherlandish Art, has sent us the following letter about the new developments. More...

Invitation to Jheronimus Bosch conference in Den Bosch on 23-25 May 2007

27 February 2007

The Jheronimus Bosch Art Center invites you to participate in the second international Jheronimus Bosch conference, this time centering on the theme ‘The Sources of Bosch’. Scholars from various countries will share all current knowledge on the Medieval artist with you during the three-day... More...

Ingrid Ciulisová's catalogue of 16th-century Netherlandish paintings in Slovak art collections has been published

26 February 2007

CODART is pleased to let you know that our member Ingrid Ciulisová has completed and published a catalogue of the holdings in Netherlandish art of the 16th century in Slovak collections. She kindly acknowledges in her preface the invaluable help of the CODART network in answering research... More...

American Friends of the Mauritshuis offers fellowship in Dutch and Flemish art

24 February 2007

The American Friends of the Mauritshuis offers grants in the field of art history to support an academic project devoted to the study of Dutch and Flemish art from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. More...

Last call for founding meeting of Arbeitskreis Niederländische Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte

9 February 2007

On Saturday, 10 February, the opening meeting will be held of a new German organization for workers in the field of Dutch art and culture. The final notice about the meeting, which will be addressed by the director of CODART, is relayed below. More...

1200th item added to CODART Exhibitions & other events: Rembrandt in Nürnberg

4 February 2007

The 1200th entry in our agenda of museum events concerning Dutch and Flemish art is not a current or future event, but one from the year 2000. More...

Fabritius issue of Oud Holland on offer to CODART members

30 January 2007

On 1 and 2 December 2004 the Mauritshuis and the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD) organized an international scholarly symposium in The Hague on the occasion of the exhibition Carel Fabritius (1622-1654). A selection of the lectures delivered at this symposium was recently published in a... More...

Rijksmuseum in negotiations to buy £40m Rembrandt from private British collection

29 January 2007

From the Art Newspaper Newsletter By Martin Bailey | Posted 25 January 2007 More...

Rob Noortman has died at the age of 60

15 January 2007

From a report by the news agency AFP. More...

Institut Néerlandais celebrates its 50th birthday

11 January 2007

On 11 January 1957 the Institut Néerlandais was opened by Prince Bernhard and President Coty with a Rembrandt exhibition. On 11 January 2007 Queen Beatrix has come to Paris to celebrate the jubilee and to open another Rembrandt exhibition, Rembrandt ... bouquet final: dessins du... More...

Symposium in Bruges joins themes of two striking exhibitions (30-31 January 2007)

30 December 2006

The Bruges museums are holding a two-day symposium devoted to two exhibitions that are overlapping in two of the museum locations: Faith and fortune in the Gruuthuse Museum and Beauty and madness in the Onze Lieve Vrouwekerk. More...

Catalogue of the paintings in the Frans Hals Museum published

24 December 2006

On 1 December the first copy of the long-awaited catalogue of the paintings in the Frans Hals Museum was presented to the burgomaster of Haarlem, Bernt Schneiders. More...

Rijksmuseum reveals identity of Jan Steen's Burgomaster of Delft with symposium, book and web special

21 December 2006

The art historian Frans Grijzenhout and the historian Niek van Sas have studied Jan Steen's so-called Burgomaster of Delft, the most expensive acquisition ever made by the Rijksmuseum. More...

Pre-publication offer of Jaap Bolten's catalogue raisonné of the drawings of Abraham Bloemaert

18 December 2006

The retired head of the Leiden University print room, Jaap Bolten, has completed his monumental catalogue of the drawings of Abraham Bloemaert. In February 2007 he is publishing it on his own. Until publication it is available for a special price. More...

College Art Association Annual Meeting 2007: talks with CODART interest

24 November 2006

From 14 to 17 February 2007 the 95th Annual Conference of the College Art Association will be held in New York. As always, the conference has numerous talks in our field. Click here for the complete program. On Friday, 16 February, Historians of Netherlandish Art will hold its annual meeting... More...

Ruud Priem appointed curator of old masters at Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen

22 November 2006

As of 1 December, Ruud Priem will take over the position vacated on 1 October when Peter Roelofs became who is now curator of 17th-century Dutch paintings at the Rijksmuseum. Priem has been working for the Rijksmuseum since 2001 as curator of the large traveling exhibitions of 17th-century... More...

Founding announced of a network organization of historians of Netherlandish art in German-speaking countries

22 November 2006

A working committee has issued a call for participation at the founding meeting, to be held in Kassel on 10 February 2007, of an organization called Arbeitskreis Niederländische Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte (ANKK). CODART welcomes this initiative and looks forward to fruitful collaboration with... More...

Johan de Haan wins Jan van Gelder Award for 2006

20 November 2006

Johan de Haan, who provided CODART with such invaluable help as a guide during the CODART NEGEN study trip to the eastern and northern provinces of the Netherlands, has won the major Dutch award for art historians under the age of 35 for the book based on his dissertation on Groningen domestic... More...

Louvre launches Rembrandt page on its website

10 November 2006

Museum announcement The Louvre has just launched a bilingual website (French, English) dedicated to Rembrandt and to its holdings of the master's works. The website accompanies the drawings exhibition which is being held at the moment. Moreover, it aims at giving substantial... More...

Canon of Dutch history and culture announced: four of the 50 subjects deal with art

20 October 2006

On 16 October, Minister Maria van der Hoeven of Education, Culture and Science released De Canon van Nederland, drawn up for her ministry by a committee of experts under the historian Frits van Oostrum, president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). More...

Rembrandt symposium in Berlin (4-5 November) open to the public

15 October 2006

A major two-day symposium on Rembrandt marking the closing of the Berlin exhibitions of the master's paintings, drawings and etchings, is open to the public, with no admission charge. More... More...

Görel Cavalli-Björkman awarded honorary professor's title by the Swedish government

14 October 2006

In an announcement of 19 June 2006, which only reached CODART this week, the Ministry of Education and Culture of Sweden awarded the honorary title of Professor to the charter member of CODART, Görel Cavalli-Björkman, Director of Research at the Nationalmuseum of Fine Arts, "for her efforts to... More...

Frits Duparc appointed member of the Légion d'Honneur

10 October 2006

On 5 October 2006, the ambassador of France in the Netherlands appointed the director of the Mauritshuis, Frits Duparc, to the Légion d'honneur. More...

Jacek Tylicki appointed curator of old art before 1900 at the National Museum in Gdańsk

18 September 2006

As of 1 September 2006, Jacek Tylicki, professor of art history at the Copernicus University in Torun and specialist in Dutch art, has taken on an addition post as curator at the National Museum in Gdańsk, well known to CODART members from CODART ZEVEN. More...

"Rembrandt à Paris": Paris museums institute a Rembrandt triangle for their Rembrandt year exhibitions

14 September 2006

From de Volkskrant, Amsterdam Starting on 20 October the Louvre, the Petit Palais and the Institut Néerlandais in Paris, all of which are showing Rembrandt exhibitions, will guide visitors from one exhibition to the next. The Bibliothèque Nationale de France, in its rue de Richelieu... More...

Frans Hals Museum launches image database

13 September 2006

From the museum website: More...

Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD) moved to new premises, open house on 14 and 23 September

30 August 2006

The RKD has moved from its ivory tower high above the Royal Library in The Hague to a more accessible location on the ground floor of the complex. The new space joins together many of the institute's various departments in two large reading rooms. Visitors are welcome at two open house... More...

CODART Courant 12 published in new style

20 August 2006

The Summer 2006 issue of the CODART Courant has been sent to subscribers. In a new division of the contents, the issue contains More...

Rijksmuseum publishes book on its holdings in 18th-century Dutch art

14 August 2006

On Wednesday, 16 August, the Rijksmuseum is presenting the third volume in a series on Dutch art in the Rijksmuseum: Nederlandse kunst 1700-1800. More...

Symposium on studio practice in early Netherlandish art to be held in Utrecht on 19 September in honor of Molly Faries

7 August 2006

To mark the retirement of Molly Faries as professor of the technical study of works of art at Groningen University, the Dutch Postgraduate School of Art History is organizing a symposium at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht. More...

Closing symposium of De Mayerne program taking place on 11 November

21 July 2006

The large-scale research program into the aging process in old master paintings is being rounded up with a study day in Amsterdam. More...

Pieter Roelofs chosen as new curator of 17th-century painting at the Rijksmuseum

20 July 2006

Amsterdam (from NRC Handelsblad, 20 July, reported by the press service ANP) More...

CODART NEGEN documentation online

19 July 2006

In keeping with CODART practice, we have produced complete documentation concerning our last congress, CODART NEGEN, Dutch and Flemi