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Institution of the Dr Alfred and Isabel Bader Prize for the best original contribution by an art historian under 35 – New issue of Simiolus vol. 34 (2009/2010) nr. 3/4 appears.

Thanks to a gift from Dr Alfred Bader we would like to announce the institution of an annual prize of €1,000 for the best original contribution on European art prior to 1950 written by an art historian younger than 35 at the time of submission. Entries for the first prize, with a maximum length of 20,000 words (including notes), can be submitted in English, Dutch, French or German, and must reach the editors of Simiolus before 1 January 2012. The editors will decide on the winning entry before 31 March 2012, will bear the costs of translation if necessary, and publish the article in Simiolus within a year.

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The latest issue of Simiolus has appeared. Below you can find the contents.

Simiolus. Netherlands quarterly for the history of art
Volume 34 2009/2010 Number 3/4

ARTICLES:

INGRID R. VERMEULEN Michel de Marolles’s album of Rembrandt prints and the reception of Dutch art in France

MICHÈLE-CAROLINE HECK Sandrart’s Teutsche Academie and the diffusion of a new style

EVERHARD KORTHALS ALTES Félibien, de Piles and Dutch seventeenth-century paintings in France

PATRICK MICHEL Dezallier d’Argenville’s Abrégé de la vie des plus fameux peintres: a guide for contemporary collectors or a survey of the taste for paintings of the northern schools?

GAËTANE MAES Dutch art collections and connoisseurship in the eighteenth century: the contributions of Dezallier d’Argenville and Descamps

VIVIAN LEE ATWATER The Netherlandish vogue and print culture in Paris, 1730-1750