Her World Is a Letter: Vermeer’s Fascination With Writing Women
In Vermeer's paintings of women writing letters, art historian Gerdien Verschoor hears their pens scratching the paper in a world that is otherwise dead silent.
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High Road to Culture in Flanders and the Netherlands
In Vermeer's paintings of women writing letters, art historian Gerdien Verschoor hears their pens scratching the paper in a world that is otherwise dead silent.
In the exhibition 'Wonderful Memories', Kunstmuseum Den Haag highlights the joyful fanaticism of the Flemish Expressionists.
The Rijksmuseum is exhibiting around fifty of Frans Hals' best works. This seventeenth-century master could transform smears of paint into striking portraits like no other.
Mauritshuis in The Hague is paying tribute to Roelant Savery, painter of the Netherlands’ first floral still life, and of the legendary (extinct) dodo.
The Mauritshuis is displaying art objects that were once stolen by French troops, colonists or Nazis, confronting you with their past and future.
A gorgeous series of paintings, prints and drawings is featured in 'Turning Heads', the exhibition at the KMSKA in Antwerp that focuses on the genre of tronie art.
You might wonder as you stand in the richly filled galleries of the Frick Collection and look at Rembrandt’s The Polish Rider: that lady in the sunglasses, that tourist with the camera on his stomach, that whining child – are they all look...