Yvonne Bleyerveld appointed professor at Leiden University

8 September 2020 / The Hague-Leiden

Dr. Yvonne Bleyerveld, Senior Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD) in The Hague – and a former co-editor of our periodical Delineavit et Sculpsit – has been bestowed an extraordinary professorship in Works of Art on Paper & Parchment at the University of Leiden. She will combine both positions. Congratulations Yvonne!

Call for candidates Master Drawings’ Ricciardi Prize #2

18 May 2019 / New York

Master Drawings is calling for submissions to the second annual competition for the Ricciardi Prize of $5,000 for the best new and unpublished article on a drawings topic (of any period) by a young scholar under the age of 40
Deadline: 15 September 2019
Please submit essay, illustrations, and CV (including birthdate) to administrator@masterdrawings.org

See also the MD-website

Rejuvination of the D&S editorial board

12 April 2019 | The Hague

In the Fall of this year Delineavit et Sculpsit will celebrate its thirtiest birthday. Started in 1989 at the Leiden University printroom, only two of the four editors of the first hour are still in office, Albert Elen and Thera Folmer-von Oven. Janno van Tatenhove passed away in 2010 and Jaap Bolten stepped down in 2013. Charles Dumas and Robert Jan te Rijdt joined Delineavit et Sculpsit slightly later in 1991 and have now been serving for 28 years. We are all growing older, some nearing retirement or already enjoying it. This certainly has advantages for our periodical because, as devoted art historians, and our profession also being our main hobby, we do not really retire, only from our jobs. Relieved from our official obligations we continue at least part of the decades-long daily routine of research, writing articles and editing those of others. This is how Charles Dumas has been able to devote a lot of free time and energy to the final editing of several issues of our periodical during the last five years, some including substantial articles by himself. Anyhow, having reached or passed the age of seventy he and Thera Folmer-von Oven have expressed the wish to step down in 2019-20, after the publication of issues 45 and 46 for which they serve as main editors. Robert Jan te Rijdt has also decided to step down this year.

For the position of chairman we will undoubtedly find a good candidate. For that of secretary, which has remained vacant since the demise of Erik Löffler in 2016, we invited Jan de Klerk to join us. Two other early career professionals have also joined the editorial board to replace Robert Jan and Yvonne Bleyerveld: Marleen Ram and Joyce Zelen. Jan served as a registrar in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (2018) and has just started in a new position at the Amsterdam City Archives. Marleen is a researcher at the Rijksmuseum printroom, specialized in drawings. Prints specialist Joyce Zelen, finishing her Ph.D. thesis in 2019, is the first Jacoba Lugt-Klever Fellow at the Fondation Custodia and the RKD. Joyce, Jan and Marleen are the new generation which will gradually take over from the old, a wonderful prospect for all of us!

You can also follow developments at Delineavit et Sculpsit on our Instagram account @delineavit, managed by Marleen Ram.

 

Rembrandt’s Religious Prints by Rosenberg

Charles M. Rosenberg, Rembrandt’s Religious Prints. The Feddersen Collection at the Snite Museum of Art, 2017

1 February 2018 | University of Notre Dame

Rembrandt’s etchings in The Feddersen Collection at the Snite Museum, are made widely available in a lavishly illustrated volume. Building on the contributions of earlier Rembrandt scholars, Charles M. Rosenberg illuminates each of the 70 religious prints through detailed background information on the artist’s career as well as the historical, religious, and artistic impulses informing their creation.

For more information

The Begemann Collection in auction at Sotheby’s

31 January 2018 | New York, Sotheby’s

In the afternoon session 73  drawings from the estate of the late professor Egbert Haverkamp Begemann will be sold (lots 251-323). The catalogue contains an obituary by one of his former students, Dr. Emily Gordenker, director of the Mauritshuis in The Hague (pp. 168-169) and a summary bibliography (pp. 170-171).

For more information, see Sotheby’s website. See also the full list of publications by Haverkamp Begemann provided by Gregory Rubinstein of Sotheby’s.

For our obituary, see below on this page