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The Female Impact featured in NRC
We are grateful for the continued attention to The Female Impact and to how research on women is changing the interpretation and presentation of seventeenth-century art. A recent article in NRC highlights two examples from our project: changes to museum labels prompted by insights from Judith Noorman’s course De vrouw van, and research by Noorman and Piet Bakker on Maria de…
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CFP Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference 2027
The next Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference will take place in Boston from 14–17 July 2027. Individual paper proposals are due to panel chairs by 15 September 2026. Judith Noorman will chair the session Introducing the Connaisseuse. The Functional Reality of Product Specificity and Household Consumption as a Knowledge Domain. The session introduces the figure of the connaisseuse to reconsider…
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CFP Beyond the Exception: Reframing Judith Leyster
In Rose Garrard’s Models Triptych: Madonna Cascade, the seventeenth-century painter Judith Leyster breaks the frame that surrounds her: a sculptural cascade of Madonna’s extending beyond the picture plane into the viewer’s space. The work offers a powerful reflection on the changing visibility of women artists within art history. Leyster herself long remained in the shadow of…
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Judith Noorman on The Clark podcast
In a recent episode of the Clark Art Institute podcast Iconoclast Art History, Caroline Fowler speaks with Judith Noorman about the category of the “woman artist” and its place within feminist art history. Their conversation considers both the limitations of the category and its continued strategic value. Drawing on her research into the seventeenth-century Dutch art…
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Judith Noorman presents plenary lecture at Codart 27
On Monday March 15, Judith Noorman wil present a plenary lecture at Codart 27 conference in Ghent: Telling Her Story: Female Creators, Collaborators and Collectors. Judith’s lecture is about women as consumers, collectors, and connoisseurs. The day will be chaired by Hanna Klarenbeek and among the other speakers are Katlijne Van der Stighelen, Andaleeb Badiee Banta, and Frederica Van Dam.
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Unforgettable: New Exhibition, Catalogue and Symposium
Unforgettable. Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600-1750 is now on view in Ghent, where it opened on 7 March 2026, following its earlier presentation at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. The exhibition brings together more than 150 works by early modern women artists from the Low Countries and highlights the richness and variety of their artistic practices. We are proud…
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Maria de Knuijt in the spotlight again!
We are grateful for the continued attention to our research on Maria de Knuijt, which allows us to reach a wide, non-academic audience. New insights into Johannes Vermeer’s clientele, presented in a recent article by Piet Bakker and Judith Noorman, have attracted interest in social and other public media. Recently, the Mauritshuis released a video for International Women’s Day, and Joke de Wolf…
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New Course: Anonymous Was a Woman
In June and July 2026, Judith Noorman will teach the OSK Summer School course: ‘Anonymous Was a Woman.’ This course is about anonymous women in portraiture — a vast corpus of artworks (larger than its male counterpart). Registration has closed as the course is fully booked.
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The Woman Behind Vermeer: Publications and Podcast on Maria de Knuijt
In March 2023, during the Vermeer Symposium at the Rijksmuseum, Judith Noorman and Piet Bakker presented new research identifying Maria de Knuijt as Vermeer’s primary patron and protector. Their findings challenge the long-held assumption that the Delft collector Pieter van Ruijven was Vermeer’s main client. By uncovering new documents and reexamining earlier sources, Judith and Piet show a different picture: it was Van Ruijven’s wife, Maria…
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Edited Volume Following The Female Impact Symposium
We are delighted to announce a forthcoming edited volume based on the presentations and discussions from The Female Impact Symposium, held on June 30 and July 1, 2025, at the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam. The volume will be published in Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, a series which is edited by Walter Melion. It will…