About the Journal

Journal of the International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art

The RIHA Journal was launched in 2010 by The International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art (RIHA). It is a peer-reviewed and open access e-journal devoted to the full range of the history of art and visual culture. The RIHA Journal especially welcomes papers on topics relevant from a supra-local perspective, articles that explore artistic interconnections or cultural exchanges, or engage with important theoretical questions that are apt to animate the discipline. As a collective endeavor, the RIHA Journal seeks to share knowledge and materials issued by scholars of all nationalities, and by doing so, to make a significant contribution to dissolving the boundaries between scholarly communities. Languages of publication are English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish.

Upcoming special issue:

Napoli dalle colline: città e campagna, cultura e natura nella veduta di Jan van Stinemolen (1582)
guest-edited by Tanja Michalsky and Adrian Bremenkamp, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome
RIHA Journal 0335-0341

Jan van Stinemolen, Panorama di Napoli, 1582, disegno su carta, 462 × 1219 mm. Albertina, Vienna, inv. 15444 (web application)

In 1582, the Dutch draughtsman Jan van Stinemolen completed a monumental panorama of the city of Naples. The distinctive feature of this work in ink on paper, which is now kept in the Albertina in Vienna, is that it does not show the conventional view of the city from the gulf, but rather from the mainland. Surprisingly, however, this original work – well known both to scholars of Neapolitan topography and to those studying Dutch drawing – has not yet received adequate interpretative attention. The contributions gathered in this issue seek to fill this gap, employing new analytical tools to present fresh perspectives on the work and to highlight its distinctive qualities.