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The latest issue of NKJ:

Elizabeth Alice Honig, Judith Noorman, and Thijs Weststeijn, eds., Women: Female Roles in Art and Society of the Netherlands, 1500–1950, Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 74 (2024), ISBN: 978-9004710740, $162.

Long overdue in the history of the Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art, 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.

Elizabeth Alice Honig is Professor of Northern European Art at the University of Maryland, and Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley. She works on Dutch, Flemish, and British art.
Judith Noorman is Associate Professor in Early Modern Art History at the University of Amsterdam. From 2021 to 2026, she is Principal Investigator of The Female Impact, a research project funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
Thijs Weststeijn is Professor of Art History before 1800 at Utrecht University, where he chairs the research project The Dutch Global Age (2023–2028).

c o n t e n t s

• Introduction
• Dynamic Partnership: The Work of Married Women in Dutch Seventeenth-Century Artists’ Households — Marleen Puyenbroek
• The Sculptor and the Sculptress: Gendering Sculpture Production in the Early Modern Low Countries —Elizabeth Rice Mattison
• The Images and the Interventions of Adriana Perez in the Rockox Collection — Kendra Grimmett
• Household Heroines: Maria van Nesse’s Memory-Book and the Interplay between the Art Market and Household Consumption — Judith Noorman
• Weaving a Business: Clara de Hont’s (1664–1751) Tapestry Workshop in Amsterdam — Rudy Jos Beerens
• Situational Awareness and Practices of Exchange in the Art of Johanna Helena Herolt and Alida Withoos — Catherine Powell-Warren
• Cultivating a Female Presence in the Early Eighteenth-Century Learned Community: The Printed Portraits of Maria de Wilde (1682–1729) — Lieke van Deinsen
• Unmarried, Married, Widowed, and Dead: Female Patrons of Architecture in Amsterdam (1680–1800) —Pieter Vlaardingerbroek
• Caretaker of a Collection: The Case of Jo van Bilderbeek-Lamaison — Bert-Jaap Koops
• We Could Hardly Refuse Them: Alida Pott and the Women of De Ploeg, 1918–1931 — Anneke de Vries