The latest issue of the Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art (JHNA) is dedicated to the study of colored grounds in seventeenth-century Dutch painting.
This special issue is guest edited by paintings conservator and technical art historian Maartje Stols-Witlox and art historian Elmer Kolfin, both of the University of Amsterdam. The publication originated from the interdisciplinary research project Down to the Ground: A Historical, Visual and Scientific Analysis of Colored Grounds in Netherlands Paintings, 1550–1650.
Visit the JHNA website to read the issue (open access).
Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art (17.2)
Down to the Ground: The Impact of Colored Grounds on Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Painting
Guest edited by Maartje Stols-Witlox and Elmer Kolfin
Contents
Editors’ Greeting
H. Perry Chapman, Jacquelyn N. Coutré, Bret Rothstein, Joanna Woodall, Alison Kettering
The Hidden Revolution of Colored Grounds: An Introduction
Maartje Stols-Witlox, Elmer Kolfin
Why Colored Grounds Matter: The Evolving Research on Colored Grounds in Dutch Paintings (1580–1720)
Elmer Kolfin
Colored Grounds in French Paintings Before 1610: A Complex Spread
Stéphanie Deprouw-Augustin
Prepared and Proffered: The Role of Professional Primers in the Spread of Colored Grounds
Moorea Hall-Aquitania
The Role of the Colored Ground in Rembrandt’s Painting Practice
Petria Noble
Laying the Ground in Still Lifes: Efficient Practices, Visual Effects, and Local Preferences Found in the Collection of the Mauritshuis
Marya Albrecht, Sabrina Meloni
Representation versus Reality: Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts’s Depiction and Use of Colored Grounds
Anne Haack Christensen
Under the Microscope and Into the Database: Designing Data Frameworks for Technical Art Historical Research
Moorea Hall-Aquitania, Paul J. C. van Laar
Remaking Colored Grounds: The Use of Reconstructions for Art Technical and Art Historical Research
Maartje Stols-Witlox, Lieve d’Hont
Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art
JHNA publishes peer-reviewed original scholarship, across a range of methodological approaches, on Dutch, Flemish, German, and Franco-Flemish art and material culture dating from the medieval period through the eighteenth century. We also publish state-of-research and critical essays, and roundtable discussions, as well as English translations of significant articles originally published in other languages. JHNA welcomes the submission of manuscripts from scholars at every career stage. We also encourage proposals for state-of-research and critical essays and roundtable discussions. See our Submissions guidelines.
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