historians of netherlandish art NEWSLETTER AND REVIEW OF BOOKS Dedicated to the Study of Netherlandish, German and Franco-Flemish Art and Architecture, 1350-1750 Vol. 28, No. 2 November 2011 Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden (ca. 1430-1473), Saint George, Strasbourg, 1462. Detail. Walnut with original polychromy, height ca. 150 cm. Evangelische Pfarrkirche St. Georg, Nördlingen. Photo: Rühl & Bormann Exhibition Liebighaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt am Main HNA Newsletter, Vol. 23, No. 2, November 2006 1 historians of netherlandish art 23 S. Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904 Telephone: (732) 937-8394 E-Mail: [email protected] www.hnanews.org Historians of Netherlandish Art Offi cers President - Stephanie Dickey (2009–2013) Bader Chair in Northern Baroque Art Queen’s University Kingston ON K7L 3N6 Canada Vice-President - Amy Golahny (2009–2013) Lycoming College Williamsport, PA 17701 Treasurer - Rebecca Brienen University of Miami Art & Art History Department PO Box 248106 Coral Gables FL 33124-2618 European Treasurer and Liaison - Fiona Healy Seminarstrasse 7 D-55127 Mainz Germany Contents President's Message .............................................................. 1 Board Members Obituary ................................................................................. 2 Dagmar Eichberger (2008–2012) HNA News ............................................................................3 Wayne Franits (2009–2013) Personalia ............................................................................... 3 Matt Kavaler (2008–2012) Exhibitions ............................................................................ 4 Henry Luttikhuizen (2009 and 2010–2014) Shelley Perlove (2008–2009 and 2010–2014) Museum News ...................................................................... 7 Joaneath Spicer (2010–2014) Scholarly Activities Anne Woollett (2008–2012) Future Conferences ............................................................... 8 Past Conferences ................................................................ 13 Newsletter & Membership Secretary Conference Review ............................................................. 17 Opportunities....................................................................... 18 Kristin Lohse Belkin 23 South Adelaide Avenue Highland Park, New Jersey 08904 Layout by Marty Perzan - Network Typesetting, Inc. HNA Review of Books 15th Century ..........................................................................21 HNA Newsletter th ISSN 1067-4284 16 Century .........................................................................22 17th-Century Flemish .......................................................... 29 17th-Century Dutch ..............................................................36 New Titles ........................................................................... 39 Dissertations ....................................................................... 43 2 HNA Newsletter, Vol. 23, No. 2, November 2006 historians of netherlandish art NEWSLETTER Applications are accepted until December 1 each year. Please From the President see the notice below and on our website (under Opportunities) Dear colleagues and friends, for details of the 2012 competition. Autumn leaves are falling and the holiday season is im- You will shortly be receiving voting instructions for this minent as we send this Newsletter to press. Our members are year’s elections for the Board of Directors. We are grateful to busy as ever, and there is much news to report. Dagmar Eichberger, Matt Kavaler, and Anne Woollett for their service as Board members over the past four years. Like the Republican Party, we have a plethora of eager volunteers: the ballot will list eleven candidates for three open Board posi- tions. Please be sure to cast your electronic vote! As usual, the winners will be announced and will take offi ce at our members’ meeting in February. The current issue of the HNA Review of Books contains a rich array of book reviews, for which we thank both our re- viewers and our fi eld editors, all of whom have kindly volun- teered their time and expertise. After nine years, Jacob Wisse has retired as fi eld editor for fourteenth- and fi fteenth-century topics to concentrate on other responsibilities. We are grateful to Jacob for such long and valuable service. Henry Luttikhuizen has stepped in as interim editor until a formal appointment can be made at the spring Board of Directors meeting. The annual conferences of our sister societies are enriched this year by numerous sessions featuring chairs or speakers who are HNA members. Among these, we are especially proud that at the Sixteenth-Century Society in Fort Worth in October, not one but two plenary lectures were given by HNA members: Diane Wolfthal and current Board member Shelley Perlove. At the College Art Association in Los Angeles in February, please join us for the HNA-sponsored session chaired by Ann Jensen Adams, and for our festive annual reception and members’ meeting, scheduled for Friday, Feb. 24, 5:30 to 7:00 in the Santa Barbara Room of the Westin Hotel. And wherever you go to We have been honored this year with a generous gift from speak, research, or network with colleagues, please spread the the Paul and Anne van Buren Fund of the Maine Community word that HNA is always happy to welcome new members! Foundation in support of our Fellowships for Scholarly Re- search, Publication and Travel. The donation comes in memory Met vriendelijke groeten of Anne Hagopian van Buren (1927-2008), a respected scholar S tephanie of medieval and early Netherlandish art and a founding mem- ber of HNA. Her husband, Rev. Paul van Buren, a noted theo- logian, died in 1998. For a tribute to Anne’s life and scholar- ship, please see the obituary written by Elizabeth Moodey for the November 2008 issue of the HNA Newsletter (archived on our website). Anne’s last important project resulted in a beau- tiful catalogue and exhibition at the Morgan Library in New York, Illuminating Fashion: Dress in the Art of Medieval France and the Low Countries. The show closed on September 4, 2011, but the on-line version can still be seen at: www.themorgan. org/collections/works/IlluminatingFashion/default.asp. This donation secures the immediate future of our fellowship pro- gram, which has already provided subsidies for a variety of important books and other scholarly projects by our members. HNA Newsletter, Vol. 28, No. 2, November 2011 1 In Memoriam chior de Hondecoeter canvas of birds in the stairwell is the fi rst painting that greets visitors. The climax is the Hendrick van Vliet, View of the Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft, from Be- neath the Organ Loft at the Western Entrance (1662). Adele and Gordon lent this great work to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the National Gallery, London, for Walter Liedtke’s extraordinary exhibition, Vermeer and the Delft School in 2001 (cat. no. 84). Adele and Gordon’s last addition to the collection is a poignant double portrait of a man and woman by Michiel van Mierevelt, bought at auction in Janu- ary, 2011. The male sitter holds a tulip bulb in one hand and a single tulip bloom in the other, implying both mutability and resurrection. Adele studied the fi eld assiduously. She researched possible purchases with great care, an enthusiasm her neurologist husband valued highly, encouraged, and shared. Yet Dutch and Flemish art was but one of her domains. Educated at Simmons College, where she majored in biol- ogy, she became a biofeedback therapist, and, at the age of 55, took a Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling. In 1996, she became a volunteer Mental Health Counselor at Gulf Coast Jewish Family Services, giving regular work- shops on the treatment of addictive disorders. She also used her professional and personal skills as a facilitator at the South Pinellas County Holocaust Survivor Support Group. A quiet, even rather shy person, Adele was undemonstra- tively compassionate, and doubtless brought great comfort Adele S. Gilbert to many people. (1939-2011) Adele was devoted to her family: her husband, their daughters Benette and Stefanie, their son Benjamin, their six Collector of seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish grandchildren, and her brother, William Schwartz. This care paintings, Adele Gilbert passed away on July 9 following a extended to those fortunate enough to experience her kind- struggle with cancer. With her husband of over fi fty years, ness as a hostess. Dr. Gordon Gilbert, she joined the Historians of Nether- landish Art at its founding. They began collecting Dutch A sailboat long remained outside the Gilbert home on and Flemish seventeenth-century paintings after taking a Boca Ciega Bay, for she and Gordon enjoyed sailing together year-long course together in 1975 on her initiative. They in younger days. Perhaps that appreciation of the pleasures usually bought at auction, traveling to New York from their – and perils – of the ocean in part prompted Adele’s aware- home in St. Petersburg, Florida, to view the Old Master ness of her affi nity with Dutch and Flemish culture. Wheth- sales. They regularly visited the annual European Fine Art er or not this is the case, it is as a contributor to the common Fair in Maastricht, and also acquired key works from New enjoyment of Dutch and Flemish paintings through their York dealers, including a very fi ne Hendrick de Clerck, Mars loans to museums – including the St. Petersburg Museum of and Venus, from fellow HNA member and supporter, Jack Art,