Sept 2024: Oud Holland publishes three new reviews

New Oud Holland Book and Exhibition Reviews

26 September 2024

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.

We hope you will find the reviews inspiring and useful.