Welcome to JHNA, the electronic journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art.  Every June and December, the journal publishes issues of peer-reviewed articles that focus on art produced in the Netherlands (north and south) during the early modern period (c. 1400-c.1750), and in other countries and later periods as they relate to Netherlandish art.  Submissions are encouraged on painting, sculpture, graphic arts, tapestry, architecture, and decoration, from the perspectives of art history, art conservation, technical studies, museum studies, historiography, and collecting history.  Submission deadline for Issue 1:2 - September 1, 2009

 An analysis of the visual and symbolic function of the spectacles held by the donor in Jan van Eyck's Virgin and Child with Canon Joris van der Paele (completed 1436) in the context of the paintingís optical language.

Nicolas Rolin's contemporaries described him in negative terms that have followed him to the present day, this essay seeks a more nuanced view of the chancellor and re-examines his depiction in Jan van Eyck's Rolin Madonna.

This paper discusses an Utrecht School panel from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the light of cultural practices in Bruges, using new and often unpublished documentary evidence to contextualize details from its composition and analyze its original use.

Jheronimus Bosch's distinctiveness results from his fixation upon the presence of evil in the world, whose origin he locates in the Fall of the Rebel Angels prior to the Fall of Humankind in Eden.