Art History - Brill Publishing

07/01/2025

The Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art/Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek in its first (1947) and latest (2024) iteration.

www.brill.com/nkj

07/01/2025

“an important book [...] the English translation in particular shows the special nature of Weyerman's expansion and appropriation. For the Weyerman beginner, the anthology is an infectious introduction. [...] Thanks to De Vries, Weyerman and his virtuoso style are given a place of honor in European literature. [...] His portrayal of Weyerman as a satirist and moralist is illuminating.”

Peter Altena in

30/12/2024

New in Open Access: The Globalization of Netherlandish Art. Edited by Benjamin Schmidt (University of Washington) and Thijs Weststeijn (Utrecht University) and featuring 127 color illustrations, this volume examines how artworks produced in the wake of European expansion—art produced in the Netherlands in reaction to the world outside of Europe and art made outside of Europe in reaction to encounters with the Netherlands—help us better understand the cultural impacts of globalization.

Read it now at https://brill.com/display/title/70704.

30/12/2024

Discover the untold story of Indonesian Islam in museums with 'Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Collections' by Mirjam Shatanawi. This book reveals how Dutch colonialism marginalized Indonesian Islamic heritage in collections and exhibitions. By tracing the journey of objects from their origins to their reinterpretation in Dutch museums, it highlights the enduring impacts of colonialism and charts pathways for decolonization. A transformative read for today’s museum world. Find out more:

27/12/2024

Guest edited by Sinem Casale (Minnesota/Florence), the latest issue of the Journal of Early Modern History takes a fresh look at global early modern art through seven objects: an illustrated Persian recipe book, a cure-all drug, a lost reliquary, a painting of Paradise, an ebony chest, a broken crucifix, and a s***f bottle.
The aim of this collection of microhistories is to suggest alternative ways of approaching global early modern art, pinpoint unexplored avenues of research, lacunae, and methods or questions that might take this burgeoning field into new directions.

https://brill.com/view/journals/jemh/28/6/jemh.28.issue-6.xml

27/12/2024

'Japanese Art – Transcultural Perspectives' unpacks the exchanges and influences shaping Japanese art across cultures, times, and spaces. This book questions old categories like "center vs. periphery" and “high vs. low,” offering a bold and refreshing perspective on art history. An interesting read for anyone curious about the interconnected world of creativity and ideas. Find out more: https://brill.ws/saaa29_

13/12/2024

The latest issue of Oud Holland, the world’s oldest art history journal, is out!

Contents of Vol. 137, No. 4:

Editorial: Adriaan de Vries and Nicolaas de Roever: A 140-Year-Old Friendship.

The Legacy of Rogier van der Weyden: A Pair of Altarpiece Shutters by the Workshop of the Master of the View of St Gudula (c. 1480–1500)
By: Alexandre Dimov and Didier Martens.

The Multigenerational and Cross-national Artist Family Verelst (c. 1618–1752): The Myth of Cornelius and Maria.
By: Peter Hancox.

Henri van de Waal’s (1910–1972) Unfinished Beeldleer: Exploring New Potentials of an Iconological Classification for the History of the Arts.
By: Charles Van Den Heuvel.

https://brill.com/view/journals/oh/137/4/oh.137.issue-4.xml

12/12/2024

*Call for Proposals*
"The Medieval Chronicle" is now being published as a biannual journal. Each issue explores all aspects of medieval chronicles, aiming to further our understanding of specific chronicles, chronicle traditions, and the broader theories shaping our perception of them.

We are looking for contributions and warmly invite you to submit your proposals to the series editors, Cristian Bratu and Alison Williams Lewin.
Contributions may include translations, analyses, comparative studies, and examinations of visual sources.

Interested? Visit our website for more information
👉https://brill.ws/mch

03/12/2024

Call for papers: Drawing Matters—The Lives of Netherlandish Works on Paper.

For vol. 77 (2027) of the Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art/Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (NKJ), we are looking for contributions that will advance our understanding of drawings from the Low Countries (present-day Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands), dating from the earliest examples made around 1430 to the present day. For more information, see https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/98769_nkj_2024_cfp.pdf.

02/12/2024

Karl Enenkel’s new monograph, “Theatre of Sexual Attraction and Psychological Destruction”, examines the myth of Hercules and Omphale in the visual arts between 1500 and 1800. Featuring a dazzling 383 color illustrations, this encyclopedic study offers an analysis of the iconography from the perspective of the history of emotions, classical and Neo-Latin philology, reception studies, and gender studies. The early modern inventions of the myth excel in a skilful display of mixed and compound emotions, such as the male character's psychopathology, and of the theatrical performance of emotions by the female character.

https://brill.com/display/title/69970

02/12/2024

Have you seen this “taqsireh” jacket? 🔎

In 1922, a stunning ensemble of Bethlehem textiles—featuring exquisite embroidery and a silver and gold chin-chain—was gifted to Princess Mary for her wedding. Representing Palestine’s “national dress,” this garment carried deep political significance.
But where is this priceless “thob al-malak” now?

After years of searching, Brill author Moya Tönnies shares her findings in her book "Colonial Diplomacy through Art. Jerusalem 1918–1926" and is now turning to you to help her find this garment.

Read the full story on our blog and join the quest to uncover the whereabouts of this remarkable piece of history!

👉 https://brill.ws/toennies

22/11/2024

New in Open Access: Velázquez, Painter & Curator, by Julia Vázquez (Max Planck Institute for Art History).

This richly illustrated book is the first to address the curatorial career of Diego Velázquez, painter to King Philip IV of Spain and chamberlain of his royal palace. It investigates the role that Velázquez played in overseeing the display of the Habsburg art collection, then the richest in the western world, and the role, in turn, that this practice played in his creative trajectory between his arrival at the Spanish court in 1623 and his death in 1660.

Download this book now at https://brill.com/display/title/69619.

20/11/2024

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20/11/2024

Edited by Denis Ribouillault (University of Montreal) and featuring 125 color illustrations, “Gardens and Academies in Early Modern Italy and Beyond” explores the role of gardens in early modern academies and, conversely, the place of what might be called 'academic culture' in early modern gardens.

https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/62485

05/11/2024

A new volume of the Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art is always a cause for celebration, even more so when it foregrounds women in art. Simply called “Women”, volume 74 of the Yearbook focuses on female roles in the art and society of the Netherlands. Edited by Elizabeth Alice Honig, Judith Noorman and Thijs Weststeijn, this beautifully produced book is dedicated to “all the women who have paved the way, opened doors, and were overlooked in the process.”

https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/71009

29/10/2024

Muqarnas, the first journal in English dedicated solely to the history of Islamic art and architecture, celebrates the publication of its 40th volume in 2024. Up to this day, Muqarnas and the Muqarnas Supplements remain a vibrant platform that facilitates discussions among art scholars. It covers Islamic art, architectural history, archaeology, as well as all aspects of Islamic visual and material cultures, historical and contemporary.

Check our special anniverary page to read the introduction by Editor-in-Chief Gülru Necipoğlu: https://brill.ws/muq40_

The online version version of Volume 40 is out now here: https://brill.ws/muqj_
Stay tuned for the print version, coming end of November!

23/10/2024

This , we highlight the 𝙒𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 2023 𝙍𝙤𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙃. 𝘽𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤𝙣 𝙋𝙧𝙞𝙯𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝘼𝙧𝙩 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮, Walter S. Melion and his English translation of Karel van Mander's "Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting".

Written by the poet-painter Karel van Mander, who finished it in June 1603, the "Grondt der edel, vry schilderconst" was the first systematic treatise on schilderconst (the art of painting / picturing) to be published in Dutch (Haarlem: Paschier van Wes[t]busch, 1604). This English-language edition of the Grondt, accompanied by an introductory monograph and a full critical apparatus, provides unprecedented access to Van Mander’s crucially important art treatise. The book sheds light on key terms and critical categories such as schilder, manier, uyt zijn selven doen, welstandt, leven and gheest, and wel schilderen, and both exemplifies and explicates the author’s distinctive views on the complementary forms and functions of history and landscape.

Explore this open access book and dowload your personal copy:
👉 brill.com/display/title/61758

21/10/2024

*International Open Access Week starts now*

We’re excited to celebrate International Open Access Week 2024. This year's theme, "Community over Commercialization," highlights the importance of equitable access to research. Join us in advancing open scholarship and ensuring that knowledge serves the public good.
Take a look at our website and explore our full range of open access art history titles:
👉https://ow.ly/CEsp50TMthp

Stay tuned for more open access content from DeGruyter Brill this week!