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Student Podcasts on Women’s History
For the course “Writing Women Into History”, developed by Judith Noorman and Anna Lawrence, students of the bachelor’s program Global Arts, Culture and Politics have created two podcast episodes. Both episodes focus on the overlooked role of women in history. Read more of listen directly to the podcasts. The course “Writing Women into History” is part of the…
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How to Identify Women as Buyers of Art
At the study day of the Stichting Het Nederlandse Interieur (SHNI), Piet Bakker spoke about our research into women as consumers of paintings. Not only female, but also male art buyers are difficult to identify in archival records. In estate inventories, ownership of paintings is always attributed to “the household” rather than “the man” or “the…
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Reinterpreting Vermeer’s Lacemaker
Long thought to have been purchased by Pieter van Ruijven, Vermeer’s painting “The Lacemaker” was probably acquired by his wife, Maria de Knuijt, who had a much closer relationship with Vermeer. In an interview for Mister Motley and based on new archival documents, Judith Noorman demonstrates that this shifted perspective demands a new interpretation of the painting’s meaning. Read the complete…
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Women in the Visual Arts Symposium
Bringing to light the overlooked role of women in the art supply trade, Marleen Puyenbroek unveiled new research at the recent Women in the Visuals Arts in the Early Modern Low Counties symposium in Den Bosch. In her paper, Marleen revealed a significant correction: a paint store, previously misattributed to Abraham van Bubbeson, was, in fact, managed…
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Students Explore Life Stories of Portrayed 17th-Century Women
A lot is known about both Marten and Oopjen from the Rijksmuseum. However, for many other so-called pendant portraits of married couples created in the 17th century, much more is known about the man than about the woman. In the course ‘Women of the Rijksmuseum,’ led by art historian Judith Noorman, students from the UvA…
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The Impact of Women on Vermeer
The Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum has had no shortage of publicity. Despite the wave of publicity, interesting new insights into Vermeer and his clients have remained underexposed. The Rijksmuseum catalogue claims that Vermeer’s main buyer was not a man, but a woman. As a guest of Stephan Komduur on Radio 1, Judith Noorman explained…
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Unique Discovery: New Perspectives on Household Consumption
A unique archival document about the seventeenth-century Northern Netherlands has surfaced in a Belgian family archive. The simple-looking booklet contains a wealth of detailed information about daily life in the seventeenth century as seen through the eyes of one woman: Maria van Nesse. The discovery instantly places Van Nesse among the best-documented people of her…
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Review of ‘Gouden vrouwen’ by Sarah Joan Moran
For the summer edition of Oud Holland Reviews, Sarah Joan Moran (Utrecht University) gives her take on Gouden vrouwen. This book is the result of a class devised and created by Judith Noorman, on women artists, collectors and patrons in the seventeenth-century Low Countries. The book was created in collaboration with her students from that class.…
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New episode about beer brewer Maritge Vooght
In the second episode of Women of the Rijksmuseum, host Cathelijne Blok and curator in training Femke Valkhoff talk about a 17th-century portrait of Maritge Vooght by Frans Hals. It turns out she was quite a famous beer brewer!
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Education Award for the Course ‘We are Writing a Book’
‘We are Writing a Book’ by Judith Noorman has been named the most innovative course in the Faculty of Humanities. The course, in which students wrote a book about art women in the Golden Age in just a few weeks’ time, also won the Audience Award. The book was published in 2020. From the jury’s…
