Apr 2024: Oud Holland publishes five new reviews

New Oud Holland Book and Exhibition Reviews

13 April 2024

For the spring 2024 edition of Oud Holland Reviews, five new reviewers review five new books.

Alistair Watkins discusses Diane Wolfthal’s Household servants and slaves. A visual history 1300-1700. Paul Taylor compares Walter Melion’s recent translation of Karel van Mander’s Grondt der edel vry schilder-const with the version by Charles Ford (Walter Melion, Karel van Mander and his foundation of the noble, free art of painting, Brill 2023 and Charles Ford, The foundations of the noble and liberal art of painting, completed in 2010, self-published in 2024). Jane Turner reviews the publication Drawn to life: Master drawings from the age of Rembrandt in the Peck Collection at the Ackland Art Museum, which was published to accompany an exhibition of the same name held from 18 March-11 June, held at the Rembrandt House in Amsterdam. John Loughman turns to David de Witt’s study Abraham van Dijck c. 1635-1680: Life and work of a late Rembrandt pupil. Finally, Gerrit Verhoeven takes us into the eighteenth century with a discussion of Gaëtane Maës’ annotated edition of Voyage pittoresque de la Flandre et du Brabant de Jean Baptiste Descamps (1769).

We hope you will find the reviews valuable, and inspiring.