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. 31, No. 2 November 2014 Jacob Jordaens, Merry Company, c. 1644. Watercolor over black chalk, heightened with white gouache, 21.9 x 23.8 cm. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Exhibited at The Getty Center, Los Angeles, October 14, 2014 – January 11, 2015. 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 – Amy Golahny (2013-2017) Lycoming College Williamsport PA 17701 Vice-President – Paul Crenshaw (2013-2017) Providence College Department of Art History 1 Cummingham Square Providence RI 02918-0001 Treasurer – Dawn Odell Lewis and Clark College 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road Portland OR 97219-7899 European Treasurer and Liaison - Fiona Healy Seminarstrasse 7 D-55127 Mainz Germany Contents Board Members President's Message .............................................................. 1 HNA News ............................................................................1 Lloyd DeWitt (2012-2016) Stephanie Dickey (2013-2017) Personalia ............................................................................... 4 Martha Hollander (2012-2016) Boston Conference Photos ....................................................5 Walter Melion (2014-2018) Exhibitions .......................................................................... 10 Gero Seelig (2014-2018) Exhibition and Film Reviews ............................................ 12 Angela Vanhaelen (2014-2018) Yao-Fen You (2013-2016) Museum News .................................................................... 16 Scholarly Activities Conferences .......................................................................... 18 Newsletter & Membership Secretary Past Conferences ................................................................ 18 Kristin Lohse Belkin 23 South Adelaide Avenue Highland Park, New Jersey 08904 Layout by Marty Perzan - Network Typesetting, Inc. HNA Review of Books 14th and 15th Centuries ........................................................ 25 HNA Newsletter 16th Century .........................................................................31 ISSN 1067-4284 17th-Century Flemish .......................................................... 33 17th-Century Dutch ..............................................................41 Germany and Central Europe ........................................... 45 New Titles ........................................................................... 45 Dissertations ....................................................................... 48 2 HNA Newsletter, Vol. 23, No. 2, November 2006 historians of netherlandish art NEWSLETTER From the President by John Decker’s session, “Blessed and Cursed: Exemplarity and fama/infamia in the Early Modern Period,” and Catherine Dear colleagues, Scallen’s “Crowd-Sourcing the State of the Field: The Inter- Our quadrennial conference in Boston, June 5-7, was a pretation of Northern European Art in the 21st Century” resounding success, by all accounts. We had a chance to chat Roundtable Session. We will once again enjoy the hospitality of informally, at mealtimes, coffees, and receptions, and mingled Syracuse University at Lubin House for our reception. Please with the members of the American Association for Nether- save the date and time: Friday, February 13, 5:30-7:00. We are landic Studies, our sister organization and co-organizer of the grateful to Wayne Franits, past president, for making this pos- conference. Generous contributors to this conference include sible. Christie’s, The Leiden Gallery, the Netherland-America And in closing, thank you for supporting HNA in its ongo- Foundation, the Kress Foundation, Erasmus Books, the Boston ing activities by paying dues, which are our main source of University Humanities Center, the Dutch Consulate General income, and please consider contributing at an additional level. of the Netherlands in New York, the Government of Flanders, We look forward to seeing you in New York! through Flanders House New York, and the Nederlandse Taal- unie. This Newsletter gives a glimpse in pictures of this event. Amy Golahny And we thank the photographers for their efforts in capturing email: [email protected] some wonderful moments! We are looking ahead to the February New York confer- ence of the College Art Association. HNA will be represented Two weeks before his death, he left his hospital bed to HNA News accept an honorary Doctor of Arts from Harvard University, where he taught from 1954 to 1991 and served as director of In Memoriam the Fogg Art Museum from 1975 to 1982. While directing the Fogg, Slive raised the funds for the construction of the Arthur Seymour Slive M. Sackler Museum, opened in 1985, which housed Harvard’s (1920 – June 14, 2014) collections of Ancient, Asian, and Islamic and Later Indian art as well as the offi ces of the faculty of the History of Art and Architecture. Construction of the Sackler Museum gave Harvard its fi rst climate-controlled gallery for temporary shows and alleviated a critical shortage of exhibition, storage, and offi ce space in the Fogg building. A master of multi-tasking, during his tenure as director Slive also organized, and wrote the catalogue for, the retrospective “Jacob van Ruisdael,” which opened in Cambridge in January, 1982, after its debut at the Mauritshuis. It was the most popular show ever presented at the Fogg Museum. Slive was the fi rst art historian trained in the United States who specialized in seventeentπh-century Dutch art. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Chicago, where he studied with the scholar of Italian sculpture Ulrich Middeldorf. His dissertation, written long before anyone put together the words “reception” and “history,” examined Rembrandt’s critical reputation from his lifetime through the early eighteenth century. It was published in 1953 as Rembrandt and His Critics, 1630-1730. Slive remained engaged with Rembrandt for the rest of his life. One of his last Seymour Slive, an honorary member of HNA, died on June publications, a study of Rembrandt’s drawings organized by 14th at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was 93 years subject, as they were classifi ed in the 1656 inventory of the art- old. ist’s possessions, appeared in 2009. HNA Newsletter, Vol. 31, No. 2, November 2014 1 Never one to shy away from studying the major fi gures Nicole Dacos in the fi eld, in addition to pursuing his interest in Rembrandt (1938 – May 29, 2014) Slive was the leading authority on Frans Hals and Jacob van Ruisdael. As early as 1962 he wrote the catalogue entries for a Hals exhibition in Haarlem. His two-volume monograph ap- peared in 1970, followed in 1974 by a third, comprising a cata- logue raisonné of Hals’s paintings. In 1989-90, a comprehensive international loan exhibition of paintings by Hals traveled from the Frans Halsmuseum to the Royal Academy and the National Gallery of Art. Although he stepped down from teaching at the age of seventy, one would hardly characterize Slive’s last twenty-three years as retirement. Dutch Painting 1600-1800 in the Pelican History of Art series came out in 1995. It is an ex- panded and updated edition of the section on painting in Dutch Art and Architecture 1600-1800, which he published, co-authored with Jakob Rosenberg, in the same series in 1966. His magiste- rial catalogue raisonné of the oeuvre of Jacob van Ruisdael, with meticulously documented entries on some 850 paintings, drawings, and prints, followed in 2001. His fi nal exhibition, “Ja- cob van Ruisdael: Master of Landscape,” was shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Royal Academy in 2005-06. Slive was over ninety when the J. Paul Getty Museum published his short study of watermills and windmills in Ruisdael’s work. A month before he died he fi nished reading the proofs of a revised edition of Nicole Dacos died on 29 May 2014 in Rome after a distin- the Hals monograph, which will come out later this year. guished career as the leading authority on the artistic rela- A uniquely gifted communicator, Slive insisted on present- tions between Italy, Spain and the Low Countries in the long ing scholarly material in an engaging, fast-paced, and acces- sixteenth century. Born in 1938 in Brussels and educated at the sible style, which enlivens his scrupulously detailed catalogue Université libre de Bruxelles, Dacos studied philology and ar- entries as well as texts, such as that of the Pelican survey book, cheology before turning to the history of art. Deep knowledge intended for a broader audience. He was a charismatic lecturer, of classical civilization remained a distinguishing feature of her whose fi fty-minute discourses on many periods in art history, work, starting with her doctoral thesis, under the direction of delivered in a booming voice and with perfect thespian tim- Georges Bazin, on the discovery of the Domus Aurea and the ing, impressed generations of Harvard undergraduates. I once diffusion of the grotesque in the Renaissance (edited by Ernst overheard the actor John Lithgow tell Seymour that one such Gombrich and published by the Warburg Institute in 1969). performance, which he recalled in vivid detail even though it Most of Dacos’s