The 74th volume of the Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art has been published. This volume foregrounds women as creators, patrons, buyers, and agents of change in the arts of the Low Countries. Venturing beyond the participation of ‘exceptional’ individuals, chapters investigate how women produced paintings, sculptures, scientific illustrations, and tapestries as well as their role in architectural patronage and personalized art collections. Teasing out a variety of socio-economic, legal, institutional, and art-theoretical dimensions of female agency, the volume highlights the role of visual culture in women’s lived experience and self-representation, asking to what extent women challenged, subverted, or confirmed societal norms in the Netherlands.
The volume is edited by Elizabeth Alice Honig, Judith Noorman and Thijs Weststeijn.
A select number of articles in this issue are published in open access. For more information about this issue, please see the Brill website.
Women: Female Roles in Art and Society of the Netherlands, 1500–1950
Introduction
Marleen Puyenbroek
Dynamic Partnership: The Work of Married Women in Dutch Seventeenth-Century Artists’ Households
Elizabeth Rice Mattison
The Sculptor and the Sculptress: Gendering Sculpture Production in the Early Modern Low Countries
Kendra Grimmett
The Images and the Interventions of Adriana Perez in the Rockox Collection
Judith Noorman
Household Heroines: Maria van Nesse’s Memory-Book and the Interplay between the Art Market and Household Consumption
Rudy Jos Beerens
Weaving a Business: Clara de Hont’s (1664-1751) Tapestry Workshop in Amsterdam
Alida Withoos and Catherine Powell-Warren
Situational Awareness and Practices of Exchange in the Art of Johanna Helena Herolt and
Lieke van Deinsen
Cultivating a Female Presence in the Early Eighteenth-Century Learned Community: The Printed Portraits of Maria de Wilde (1682-1729)
Pieter Vlaardingerbroek
Unmarried, Married, Widowed and Dead: Female Patrons of Architecture in Amsterdam (1680-1800)
Bert-Jaap Koops
Caretaker of a Collection: The Case of Jo van Bilderbeek-Lamaison
Anneke de Vries
We Could Hardly Refuse Them: Alida Pott and the Women of De Ploeg, 1918-1931
NKJ 74 (2024): Women: Female Roles in Art and Society of the Netherlands, 1500–1950