Simiolus | Netherlands quarterly for the history of art

After publishing a hitherto unknown Van Eyck document in the previous issue of Simiolus, it was a great pleasure to present a paper in the current one with new information on the male model in the Arnolfini Portrait — who is definitely not Giovanni Arnolfini, but his elder nephew. Among the other papers in that issue, you will find a most interesting contribution by Frans Grijzenhout on the identity of the family in Adriaen van Ostade’s Family portrait in the Louvre, which he has recognized as the family Van den Heuvel — a well-documented family of art-loving Flemish emigrants who were also painted by Frans Hals.

Simiolus 43-4 will be at least as rich, with papers on subjects ranging from Pieter Bruegel the Elder to the early twentieth-century art trade. And if you keep writing for us and subscribing and persuading others to subscribe as well, we promise to go on contributing to the history of Netherlandish art as our journal has been doing ever since it was established in the 1960s!

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Current issue

Articles in the current issue (43-3)

Finalizing the case for Giannino Arnolfini: new information about the sitter in the Arnolfini portrait and his relation to Van Eyck

Jan Verheyen

Maarten van Heemskerck’s two portraits of women spinning

Ilja M. Veldman

Adriaen van Ostade, Frans Hals, and the art-loving Van den Heuvel family

Frans Grijzenhout

Machine Art: how Domela gained ground on the American modern art circuit in 1935/36

Ankie de Jongh-Vermeulen

Issue 43-1/2

Articles in issue 43-1/2

Durandus on pictures and ornaments in the church

Victor M. Schmidt

A new document on Jan van Eyck: his request for a confessional letter in the Vatican Archives

Hendrik Callewier

Hendrick Goltzius, Rudolf II, and a new proposal regarding the iconography and patronage of the Hermitage Penwerck

Alexey Larionov

Venturing an alliance: the optics of graphic linearity

Elvira Bojilova

Artistic practice in two anonymous silversmiths’ drawing books

Esther van der Hoorn

Michal: Jan Victors’s women at the window

Ilja M. Veldman

The living conditions and social networks of northern Netherlandish painters in Italy, c. 1600–1700: evaluation of the archival sources

Gert Jan van der Sman

Issue 42-3/4

Articles in issue 42-3/4

Quentin Massys and Jérôme de Busleyden: the textual sources and the likely patron of The moneychanger and his wife

Malcolm Russell

Ordering reliquary statuettes in Tongeren: a statement amidst religious turmoil

Elizabeth Rice Mattison

The enterprising Mynken Liefrinck: coloring, printing and selling maps and prints in sixteenth-century Antwerp

Dirk Imhof

A “Raphael” set in stone: Henry Ferguson’s Fantasy landscape with St Charles Borromeo in the Rijksmuseum

Duncan Bull

Ensor in the popular imagination: Paul Haesaerts’s film Masques et visages de James Ensor (1952)

Joséphine Vandekerckhove

Issue 42-1/2

Articles in issue 42-1/2

The swan song of Philip of Cleves (1456–1528): innovative tomb sculpture and ducal imagery in the Ravenstein mausoleum

Ruben Suykerbuyk

Not Felipe de Guevara, but Wilhelm von Roggendorf: a portrait of a knight attributed to Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen

Marieke van Wamel

Under siege: the aesthetics and politics of Michelangelo’s attack on Flemish painting

James Hall

“Paintings that can give great joy to the lovers of art”: Marcus van Vaernewijck’s notes about art and artists (1568)

Laurens Kleine Deters

Review – Peter Schatborn and Erik Hinterding, Rembrandt: the complete drawings and etchings

Jane Shoaf Turner

Issue 41-4

Articles in issue 41-4

Hendrick Goltzius and the origins of the auricular style or kwab

Huigen Leeflang

Rembrandt’s so-called betrothal

Irene Groeneweg

The idol in Rembrandt’s 1626 Leiden history painting: an addendum

Peter Hecht

Evoking a common past: art in the cause of unifying the southern and northern Netherlands, 1815–30

Naomi Bisping

Willem de Kooning at the Stedelijk Museum: Edy de Wilde and the introduction of Abstract Expressionism in the Netherlands

Jan van Adrichem

Review – Books by Tatjana Bartsch and Arthur DiFuria on Heemskerck’s Roman drawings

Ilja Veldman

Issue 41-3

Articles in issue 41-3

Dusting off terracottas: a critical reception history of Johan Gregor van der Schardt’s artistic legacy

Frits Scholten

Anatomical study models from the studio of Johan Gregor van der Schardt

Titia de Haseth Möller

Some technical aspects of the terracotta models from the estate of Johan Gregor van der Schardt

Isabelle Garachon

Una anotomia cavallesca: Van der Schardt, sculptor in bronze between Bologna and Mantua

Lorenzo Principi

Issue 41-1/2

Articles in issue 41-1/2

Paulus de Kempenaer and the political exploitation of Hieronymus Bosch in the Dutch Revolt

Daan van Heesch

A rediscovered painting by Maarten van Heemskerck: a moral allegory in the form of a Prodigal Son

Ilja M. Veldman

Absence and absolutism: the disappearance of the royal tomb in seventeenth-century Europe

Arjan de Koomen

The Tableaux du Temple des Muses: genesis and publishing history

Saskia van Altena

César Domela, tacking between Mondrian and Van Doesburg

Ankie de Jongh-Vermeulen