This season’s Oud Holland Reviews publishes three new reviews on Dutch seventeenth-century art. Elizabeth Sutton discusses the merits of Catherine Powell-Warren’s Gender and self-fashioning at the intersection of art and science: Agnes Block, botany, and networks in the Dutch 17th Century (Amsterdam University Press, 2024). Norbert Middelkoop meticulously analyses the Rijksmuseum venue of the Frans Hals exhibition and the accompanying catalogue: Bart Cornelis, F. Lammertse, J. Rinnooy Kan and J. van der Veen, Frans Hals (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2023). Elmer Kolfin reviews Christopher Atkins’ Dutch art in a global age (Boston, MFA Publications, 2023), which turns out to be more original than it claims.
The September edition also bids farewell to Nelleke de Vries and Justine Rinnooy Kan, who step down as editors, and welcomes Lotte Kokkedee as their successor. We thank Nelleke and Justine for their time and devotion. Lotte is a PhD-candidate at Ghent University, researching early modern conceptualisations and practices of imitation, copying and forgery.
In addition, articles published in Oud Holland 137.3 include:
Schonkeren, Hanne. “Master with the lion head in a shield: A new attribution of the ornamental cup of Veere (c. 1547-1548)”, Oud Holland – Journal for Art of the Low Countries 137, 3 (2024): 85-106, doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/18750176-13703001
de Klerck, Bram. “Trading places with the traitor: Pieter Pourbus (c. 1523-1584) and sixteenth-century Last Supper iconography”, Oud Holland – Journal for Art of the Low Countries 137, 3 (2024): 107-120, doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/18750176-13703002
Arbós, Joan Mut I. “Lawrence Alma-Tadema and the nineteenth-century ‘periode eye’: Classical sources for his Entrance of the theatre (1866) and An exedra (1869)”, Oud Holland – Journal for Art of the Low Countries 137, 3 (2024): 121-139, doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/18750176-13703003