Emma de Jong awarded American Friends of Capodimonte Fellowship

Emma de Jong has been awarded the American Friends of Capodimonte Fellowship for 2023-2024. De Jong will draw on her background in Dutch, Flemish, and German prints from the 16th century for a major traveling exhibition on the Battle of Pavia tapestries designed by Flemish painter and draftsman, Bernard van Orley.

Walter Melion named Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow

Walter Melion has been named Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery in Washington, DC for the academic year 2023-2024. He will spend the year finishing his book Praying through Prints: Technologies of Affective Piety and Image-Based Devotion in Dutch and Flemish Prayerbooks, 1480-1680.