Historians of Netherlandish Art

Historians of Netherlandish Art
Formation1983
TypeScholarly organization
Official language
English
Websitehttps://hnanews.org/

Historians of Netherlandish Art (HNA) is an international scholarly organization devoted to the study of the art and material culture of the Low Countries from the medieval period through the twenty-first century.[1]

Founded in 1983, the organization promotes research, publication, and professional exchange among scholars, curators, conservators, and students working on Dutch art and Flemish art.[2] The organization organizes biennial conferences held in Europe and North America and supports emerging scholars through grants and awards.

HNA maintains an online platform for news, professional opportunities, and resources related to Netherlandish art history.[3]

Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art

Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art
DisciplineArt history
LanguageEnglish
Edited byH. Perry Chapman (2021-), Allison Kettering (2008-2021)
Publication details
History2008–present
Publisher
FrequencyBiannual
Yes
LicenseCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.1 International
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4J. Hist. Neth. Art
Indexing
ISSN1949-9833
LCCN2009262075
OCLC no.952809317
Links

HNA also publishes Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art (JHNA), peer-reviewed open-access academic journal covering art history publication established in 2008/2009, which features research articles, exhibition reviews, and scholarly roundtables.[4] It appears biannually and features original scholarship on Dutch, Flemish, German, and Franco-Flemish art and material culture.[5][6]

Origins and impact

The journal grew out of the newsletters of Historians of Netherlandish Art—which originally included book reviews, and the last edition of that format was published in November 2017. As the newsletters moved into digital form, the reviews also shifted online, and the publication gradually developed into a journal that combined book reviews with peer-reviewed scholarly articles.[7]

The American scholar and professor Allison Kettering was the founding editor in chief of the journal, from 2008-2021.[8][9][10]

Later development

The journal has been discussed within broader scholarship on digital art history and digital publishing in the discipline, and situated alongside other major open-access digital art history journals in discussions of the field's development.[11][12][13][14] [15][16]

In 2016, the journal received support from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation to modernize its digital architecture and enable digitally enhanced articles.[17] In 2018, the journal announced that it had received a Kress Digital Resources Grant for 2019-2020, which supported the development of digitally enhanced art-historical scholarship.[18]

In 2019, the historian Elizabeth Sutton stated of the journal and its importance to scholarship in the field of art history: "The Historians of Netherlandish Art (HNA), following inroads in digital collaborative and accessible website and archives by Dutch institutions, is currently sponsoring such scholarship through its online journal, JHNA, and digital projects."[19]

Role in 2023 Vermeer attribution debate

The publication entered wider public view in the Guardian in 2023 when Betsy Wieseman of the National Gallery of Art, one of its contributors to an article on Johannes Vermeer, became a central voice in the widely reported debate over the attribution of the painting Girl with a Flute. The work had long been attributed to Vermeer, with her and her team reversing the attribution, with the Guardian writing: "The paint had been handled in a heavy-handed way that 'pooled and almost dripped', the team wrote in the Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art."[20]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals,[4] EBSCO databases and the International Bibliography of Periodical Literature,[21] and is also listed in MIAR.[22]

References

  1. ^ "Conference: Historians of Netherlandish Art 2024". Amsterdam University Press. Retrieved 27 February 2026.
  2. ^ "HNA announces the publication of JHNA". CODART. Retrieved 27 February 2026.
  3. ^ "The Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art". Society for Historians of Collecting and Digital Art History. Retrieved 27 February 2026.
  4. ^ a b "Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art". Directory of Open Access Journals. Retrieved 27 February 2026.
  5. ^ "Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art". Directory of Open Access Journals. Retrieved 27 February 2026.
  6. ^ "Conference: Historians of Netherlandish Art (HNA)". Onderzoekschool Kunstgeschiedenis. Retrieved 27 February 2026.
  7. ^ "The Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art". Society for Historians of Collecting and Digital Art History. Retrieved 27 February 2026.
  8. ^ "About the contributors". Oud Holland. 130 (1/2): 55–55. 2017 – via JSTOR.
  9. ^ "Oberlin Alumni Magazine" (PDF). Oberlin Alumni Magazine. Vol. 110, no. 2. Oberlin College. Spring 2015. p. 31. Retrieved 7 March 2026.
  10. ^ Odell, Dawn; Buskirk, Jessica, eds. (2014). Midwestern Arcadia: Festschrift in Honor of Alison McNeil Kettering. Northfield: Carleton College.
  11. ^ Card, Baillie; Droth, Martina; Scutt, Tom; Turner, Sarah Victoria (2019). "Beyond the PDF: Expanding Art History Digitally with British Art Studies". Visual Resources. 35 (1–2): 155–170. doi:10.1080/01973762.2019.1553446.
  12. ^ Brey, Alexander (2021). "Digital art history in 2021". History Compass. 19 (8) e12678. doi:10.1111/hic3.12678.
  13. ^ "The Dutch Textile Trade Project". Samuel H. Kress Foundation. 5 April 2023. Retrieved 11 March 2026.
  14. ^ Harris, Gareth (19 June 2024). "From one hand to another: painting reworked by Rubens to be sold at Sotheby's". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 7 March 2026.
  15. ^ "Issue of Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art". Digital Humanities. Carleton College. 13 January 2022. Retrieved 7 March 2026.
  16. ^ H. Perry Chapman (10 May 2022). "Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art (JHNA), Vol. 14, Nr. 2". ArtHist.net. Retrieved 7 March 2026.
  17. ^ "Delmas Foundation supports Kettering's work modernizing art journal". Grants Office. Carleton College. 22 July 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2026.
  18. ^ Kettering, Alison M.; Coutré, Jacquelyn N.; Eichberger, Dagmar; Rothstein, Bret. "Editors' Greeting". Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art. 10 (2). Retrieved 9 March 2026.
  19. ^ Sutton, Elizabeth (2019). "Introduction: An Historiographical Perspective on Women Making Netherlandish Art History". In Sutton, Elizabeth (ed.). Women Artists and Patrons in the Netherlands, 1500–1700. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. p. 14. doi:10.5117/9789463721400_ch01.
  20. ^ Rankin, Jennifer (2 January 2023). "When is a Vermeer not a Vermeer? Reputations on the line over authenticity of artwork". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 March 2026.
  21. ^ "Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art — JHNA". Mir@bel (in French). Réseau Mir@bel. Retrieved 11 March 2026.
  22. ^ "Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art". MIAR: Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals. University of Barcelona. Retrieved 2026-03-11.
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