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The reliquary shrine of Saint Odilia in Borgloon (1292): An iconographical reconstruction Oud Holland Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Jeroen Reyniers
A remarkable thirteenth-century reliquary shrine of Saint Odilia kept in the Church of Saint Odulphus in Borgloon (Belgium) – notably the oldest dated example of panel paintings in the Low Countries – has been the topic of several art historical studies. These studies attempt to unravel the iconography of the painted panels, indicating how they should be interpreted, and in which order. The difficulty
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Three documents concerning the Oranjezaal, Huis ten Bosch (1648-1652): A new find and two more precise datings Oud Holland Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Lidwien Speleers
Between 1648 and 1652, Amalia van Solms, widow of Stadholder Frederik Hendrik, had the central hall of her new country house in the Haagse Bos decorated from floor to ceiling with paintings. To perform the work, she hired twelve painters from both the Dutch Republic and the Southern Netherlands. The room at Huis ten Bosch Palace is known today as the Oranjezaal. A great deal is known about the production
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Under the skin: Portraits by Abraham de Vries (c. 1590-1649/50) recognised and revealed Oud Holland Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Carla van de Puttelaar, Fred G. Meijer
This article discusses four portraits by Abraham de Vries (c. 1590-1649/50), three of which were recently recognised as the artist’s work, and all of which were subject to changes over time. The appearance of these portraits, as the authors came across them, prompted further investigation. The first two are portraits of the same girl (figs. 1a and 2a) from c. 1629 that originally had virtually the
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Earthly fruitfulness and the gods of nature in Rubens’ imagery Oud Holland Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Elizabeth Mcgrath
This article explores themes of fertility and fecundity in Peter Paul Rubens’ work and investigates their role in a peculiar Rubensian category of subject, somewhere between landscape and myth, which can perhaps be described as ‘mythological genre’. Here we see the ancient gods of nature inhabiting the countryside and engaged in their ‘everyday’ activities, though, as in The feast of Venus (Vienna
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New perspectives on Rubens’ landscapes: Separation and reunion of Het Steen and The rainbow landscape Oud Holland Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Susanna Avery-Quash, Lucy Davis
The articles in this Oud Holland special issue ‘New perspectives on Rubens’ landscapes’ reassess Peter Paul Rubens’ late landscapes from a number of new perspectives. The occasion for this was the landmark exhibition Rubens: Reuniting the great landscapes held at the Wallace Collection, London from 3 June to 15 August 2021, preceded by a conference ‘Rubens’ great landscapes’ held at the Wallace Collection
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Rubens and his landscapes: Reflections on the notion of ‘otium’ Oud Holland Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Corina Kleinert
This essay sheds light on Peter Paul Rubens’ intentions or possible underlying reasons for the ‘organic’ growth of his landscape paintings by analysing the fundamental contemporary notion of ‘otium’ (fruitful repose). Understood as contemplative leisure encouraging artistic and intellectual endeavour in accordance with Cicero’s advocacy of ‘otium cum dignitate’, it was deeply rooted in the classical
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Rubens’ landscapes and the Dutch Republic Oud Holland Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Nils Büttner
Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) is generally regarded as the painter of the Counter-Reformation and the embodiment of Flemish Baroque. Since the founding of the Belgian state in 1830, he and his art have been increasingly appropriated as a point of reference for the cultural identity of Flanders. Art was also appropriated in the formation of the national identity of the Kingdom of the Netherlands – in
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Surveying Rubens’ late landscapes: New cartographic and archival sources on Het Steen Oud Holland Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Bert Watteeuw
Since the late nineteenth century, no new archival research on Peter Paul Rubens’ estate Het Steen has been published. Throughout the twentieth century, it has been assumed that art historians, such as Max Rooses, had depleted the archives for clues on Rubens’ country seat. No further targeted searches were undertaken. When the castle was acquired by the Flemish government in summer of 2019, the last
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Collecting contemporary art in Rotterdam between 1870 and 1892: The international taste of Fop Smit Jr (1815-1892) Oud Holland Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Evelien De Visser
The extensive international art collection of the now virtually forgotten Rotterdam collector Fop Smit Jr (1815-1892) included as many as 240 contemporary European genre paintings and several works by renowned artists of the Barbizon School. After Smit’s death, his collection was divided among his family. The recent discovery of a two-part album containing photographs of the works of art he owned made
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Cornelis Tromp’s trophies: The origins of a late portrait (1675-1676) by Ferdinand Bol Oud Holland Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Margriet Van Eikema Hommes, Inez Van Der Werf, Piet Bakker, Kathrin Kirsch
In 2018, Het Scheepvaartmuseum in Amsterdam acquired a portrait of Lieutenant-Admiral Cornelis Tromp (1629-1691), painted by Ferdinand Bol, from a private collection. Previously, this work was only known from a reproduction print by Lambert Visscher. After its acquisition, the portrait was restored in 2019, which is when its material and (art) historical aspects were examined. In the portrait, Tromp
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New biographical data on Adriaen van de Venne (1590-1662) and his family Oud Holland Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Edwin Buijsen, Harm Nijboer
In his biography of Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne in Het gulden cabinet van de edel vry schilderconst (1661-1662) Cornelis de Bie devotes a few lines to the painter’s early years. Until recently, this was all the information we had regarding the origins, childhood and training of this versatile artist. Fresh biographical data for Adriaen van de Venne and his family, however, has recently become available
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Anton van den Wyngaerde’s threefold project of the Panorama of Walcheren (c. 1547-1570) Oud Holland Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Ryan E. Gregg
Anton van den Wyngaerde’s (c. 1490-1571) Panorama of Walcheren in the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp depicts the mid-sixteenth-century island of Walcheren and the North Sea across ten meters of paper. Its length and extensive geographic coverage make it unique amongst the artist’s extant oeuvre. Primarily known for his depictions of Spanish and Netherlandish cities drawn for King Philip II, Van
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The debts owed by the Castilian court to an emigrant painter: Michel Sittow’s sojourns in Castile (1492-1502/1504) Oud Holland Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Oskar J. Rojewski
This article focuses on two recently discovered documents from Spanish archives in Simancas and Zaragoza, which show a record of the relationship between the painter Michel Sittow (c. 1468-1525/6) and several members of the court of Isabella of Castile between 1492 and 1502. Further, it puts into context several formerly published documents that indicate significant debts were owed to the painter and
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Many Amersfoort hands: Revisiting the making of Albert Eckhout’s Brazilian paintings (1641-1643) Oud Holland Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Jørgen Wadum
Albert Eckhout’s twenty-one paintings, signed and dated 1641-1643, kept at the National Museum of Denmark, has stirred much speculation as to their making, meaning, and function. Eight impressive larger-than-life depictions of native Brazilian inhabitants and a huge dancing scene of the Tarairiu Indians were presented as gifts to the Danish King Frederik III (1609-1670) in 1654, together with twelve
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Pieter de Hooch’s window shutter with the Habsburg Emperor Charles V (1661) Oud Holland Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Elizabeth den Hartog
This article deals with Pieter de Hooch’s enigmatic painting Woman holding a basket with beans in a garden of 1661 (Kunstmuseum, Basel), and, more specifically, with the identity of the man depicted on the window shutter of the building in the foreground of the painting. The author argues that this portrait, which was hidden behind a layer of paint for a long time and only uncovered sometime between
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Some notes by Ernst Brinck (1582-1649) on painters, collectors and exceptional art Oud Holland Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Michiel Roscam Abbing
This article focuses on the Harderwijk regent Ernst Brinck (1582-1649) who owned an extensive cabinet of curiosities and a library full of valuable books. His exceptionally wide range of interests is also evident from surviving notebooks of his in the Harderwijk archives. The entries they contain show that Brinck visited other collectors and viewed their cabinets. It goes without saying that interesting
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Indian chintzes with Dutch coats of arms (1725-1750) Oud Holland Pub Date : 2021-04-26 Ebeltje Hartkamp-Jonxis
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Jacques Jordaens as family man: New information about the painter and his family in The Hague Oud Holland Pub Date : 2021-04-26 Leen Kelchtermans,Katharina van Cauteren
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Rembrandt’s insolvency: The artist as legal actor Oud Holland Pub Date : 2021-04-26 Dave De Ruysscher,Cornelis In ’T Veld
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Contribution to the biography of Hendrick De Somer (1602-after 1655): A seventeenth-century Neapolitan painter from Lokeren Oud Holland Pub Date : 2021-04-26 Erik Bielen
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‘A fashionable sickness’: Paul Clemen on the early twentieth-century ‘preference for the Primitives’ Oud Holland Pub Date : 2020-12-04 William J. Diebold
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Karl Schnaase’s Niederländische Briefe (1834): Early Netherlandish painting in European perspective Oud Holland Pub Date : 2020-12-04 Henrik Karge
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Detail and texture: Edmond Fierlants’ reproductions of the ‘Flemish Primitives’ and their reception Oud Holland Pub Date : 2020-12-04 Érika Wicky
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Present or absent? Jan van Eyck and the 1549 goblet of the Antwerp painters’ guild Oud Holland Pub Date : 2020-12-04 Sandra Hindriks
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Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (NKJ) Oud Holland Pub Date : 2020-12-04 Editors Oud Holland - Journal for Art of th
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Ensor’s flandricisms and the cultural politics of Belgian identity Oud Holland Pub Date : 2020-12-04 Susan M. Canning
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‘Beautiful authorities’: Augustus W.N. Pugin and early Netherlandish painting Oud Holland Pub Date : 2020-12-04 Douglas Brine
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The past is always present: The image of early Netherlandish art in the long nineteenth century Oud Holland Pub Date : 2020-12-04 Alison Hokanson,Edward H. Wouk
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From fox to donkey: A hidden political satire on Oliver Cromwell by Cornelis Saftleven Oud Holland Pub Date : 2019-10-31 Ineke Wolf
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An unknown letter of Daniel Seghers from 1660 regarding sketches by Peter Paul Rubens Oud Holland Pub Date : 2019-10-31 S.J. Paul Begheyn
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Art for the Court: A new interpretation of Gerard de Lairesse’s paintings for the Court of Appeal of Holland (1688-1689) Oud Holland Pub Date : 2019-10-31 Tim Lubbers
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Gerard de Lairesse in Portuguese: The Groot schilderboek in Lisbon and Rio Oud Holland Pub Date : 2019-10-31 Tijana Žakula
Through the adoption and endorsement of the ‘antique’, that was “followed by the most polite nations”, Gerard de Lairesse (1641-1711) aspired to reach out beyond the borders of the Northern Netherlands. His success with the grand and important elsewhere would eventually put contemporary Dutch art on the artistic map of Europe – or so he hoped. In that respect, the Groot schilderboek (1707) had an important
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Oud Holland book and exhibition reviews Oud Holland Pub Date : 2019-10-31 Editors Oud Holland – Journal for Art of th
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The picturesque motif of the rotunda in the work of Roelandt Savery Oud Holland Pub Date : 2019-10-31 Štepán Vácha
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Abraham Willaerts: Marine painter of Dutch Brazil and the Atlantic world Oud Holland Pub Date : 2019-10-31 Michiel van Groesen
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Business partner in The Hague: New archival document about Jacques Jordaens Oud Holland Pub Date : 2019-10-31 Leen Kelchtermans,Katharina van Cauteren
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APPENDIX 2: Paintings by Jacob de Wet and his workshop in Doeck’s inventory (1664) Oud Holland Pub Date : 2018-11-16 Editors Oud Holland
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APPENDIX 1: Pupils of Jacob de Wet during 1638-1644, 1650-1656, and 1660-1670 Oud Holland Pub Date : 2018-11-16 Editors Oud Holland
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APPENDIX 3: Paintings by Jacob de Wet and his workshop in Meijeringh’s inventory (1687) Oud Holland Pub Date : 2018-11-16 Editors Oud Holland
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The workshop of Jacob de Wet (1610-1675) and his mass production of history painting Oud Holland Pub Date : 2018-11-16 Angela Jager
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De allegorische familiegroep van een echtpaar met twee kinderen door Gerard de Lairesse: De Amsterdamse apotheker Christoffel Sprongh en zijn gezin Oud Holland Pub Date : 2018-08-21 Jaap van der Veen
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Niet Jürgen Ovens (1623-1678), maar een onbekende oude man in Houbrakens Groote Schouburgh (1718) Oud Holland Pub Date : 2018-08-21 Patrick Larsen
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‘Zo geestig, kunstig en natuurlyk’ Het portret van de familie Quarles door Gerard Hoet I (1648-1733) Oud Holland Pub Date : 2018-08-21 Laurens Schoemaker
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Achter het masker van de Muiderkring: Een nieuw portret voor Roemer Visscher (1547-1620) Oud Holland Pub Date : 2018-08-21 Lieke van Deinsen
The authenticity of the portrait of the Amsterdam poet Roemer Pieterszoon Visscher (1547-1620)-depicted as an old man with a beard and distinctive hat-has been a subject of debate ever since it was printed in Jacobus Scheltema's Anna en Maria Tesselschade, de dochters van Roemer Visscher (1808).Although the portrait formed the basis for the likeness of Roemer Visscher in popular nineteenth-century
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Out of Bosch’s shadow: A rediscovered altarpiece by Jan Mandijn Oud Holland Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Daan van Heesch
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A case of mistaken identity: Concerning the photographic portrait of Vincent van Gogh, age thirteen Oud Holland Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Teio Meedendorp,Yves Vasseur
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A Dutch connection: Re-identifying a sitter at the National Portrait Gallery in London Oud Holland Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Andrew Graciano
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The list of paintings of Isabella Van Laer with an introduction Oud Holland Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Editors Oud Holland
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African man with a conch, ca. 1620-1625: A new attribution to Abraham Bloemaert Oud Holland Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Elmer Kolfin
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Jan Cornelisz van Loenen et Jan Rutgersz van Niwael : « Les flamans paintres demeurant à la maison de Collavoy » Oud Holland Pub Date : 2017-04-17 Stephanie Levert
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Images of The Physician As God in Netherlandish Art from the 16th to 18th Centuries Oud Holland Pub Date : 2017-04-17 Robert E. Gerhardt
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Rubens’ Rockox-epitaaf: een nieuwe bijdrage tot de iconografie Oud Holland Pub Date : 2017-04-17 Mireille Madou
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Hans Memling’s Last Judgement in Gdańsk: technical evidence and creative process Oud Holland Pub Date : 2017-04-17 Bernhard Ridderbos,Molly Faries
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De verrassende achtergrond van Charles en David de Hooch Oud Holland Pub Date : 2017-04-17 Ir. Jaap Gestman Geradts
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