Public lecture at Tylers: Watermarks & computational art history

16 May 2025 / Haarlem, Teylers Museum

On Friday, May 16, the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History in collaboration with Teylers Museum is organizing a public lecture on watermark analysis using digital tools. Speakers are Prof. Rick Johnson and Dr. Rob Fucci. This afternoon will take place at Teylers Museum, is free of charge and can also be followed online.

This public lecture on watermark analysis is part of the Watermarks research project, to which Rick Johnson and Rob Fucci are closely associated as researchers. This project, led by the RKD, is working to improve watermark identification and comparison with innovative digital tools and image processing techniques. The research is conducted in collaboration with various partners, including Teylers Museum. The public lecture ties in with the four-day Watermarks & Computational Art History short course being taught at the RKD in May.

For program and registration click here.

Issue 55 Libretto amicorum for Ilja Veldman on her 80th birthday

22 November 2024 / Haarlem, Teylers Museum

During the symposium on Maarten van Heemskerck Prof.em. Ilja Veldman was surprised with the first copy of issue 55 of Delineavit et Sculpsit. It is dedicated to her and contains an interview with her followed by fourteen articles on fifteenth- to nineteenth-century Netherlandish prints, written by friends and colleagues. It was presented by Prof. Yvonne Bleyerveld, a former student of hers and a former member of the editorial board of Delineavit et Sculpsit. This double thick special issue was generously supported by our sponsor the Fondation Custodia with an extra grant from the Frits and To Lugt Study Fund.

Photo by Joyce Zelen

Contents of this issue:

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Robert-Jan te Rijdt Passed Away at Age 69

7 November 2024 / The Hague

It is with great sadness that we learned that our dear friend, colleague and former co-editor Robert-Jan te Rijdt passed away Nov. 5 in his hometown of The Hague.

Since his retirement three years ago as curator of drawings at the Rijksmuseum, a position he held for more than 30 years, he struggled with his health, which did not prevent him from continuing his research on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Dutch drawings.

Please see below the In Memoriam written by our former chairman Charles Dumas.

Robert-Jan te Rijdt, 9 Sep. 2014
(foto Carla van de Puttelaar)
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In Memoriam Robert-Jan te Rijdt (1955-2024)

By Charles Dumas

On 5 November 2024, Robert-Jan te Rijdt, who served on the editorial board of Delineavit et Sculpsit from December 1991 through April 2021, passed away at the age of 69. Besides regular editorial work – reading and commenting on incoming copy – Robert-Jan also made a large number of contributions to the journal himself: twelve essays and eleven miscellania. Moreover, in 1994 he was one of the authors of the catalogue of drawings and prints of the Rijnsburg ruin, while in 1997 he was responsible for the entries of the eighteenth-century Dutch drawings from the collection of the Jean van Caloen Foundation. He also co-authored with Janno van Tatenhove an article on drawings by Jan van Mieris in 2007, and in 2016 together with J.W. Niemeijer an extra-thick special issue on drawings made à l’impromptu (on a whim), an aspect of Dutch drawing of the eighteenth century that had not previously received attention.

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Symposium Vensters op de 16de eeuw

22 November 2024 / Haarlem, Teylers Museum

A symposium organised along the blockbuster exhibition on Maarten van Heemskerck. Click here for the program.

From Bruegel to Rubens: drawings exhibition in Brussels

11 October 2024 – 16 February 2025 / Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

Curator Stefaan Hautekete has made yet another important exhibition of a selection from the museum’s finest Old Master drawings. The catalogue, with 93 illustrated entries, is the last one in a series of five.

For more information visit the museum’s website.