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200 Years Mauritshuis – An Eventful History
21 June 2022
You can admire Johannes Vermeer’s world-famous Girl with a Pearl Earring there, as well as masterpieces by Rembrandt, Rubens and Frans Hals. With its large collection of works from the Golden Age, Mauritshuis in The Hague has been one of the most important museums in the Netherlands for the last t
The Impressive Skies of Landscape Photographer Saskia Boelsums
1 December 2020
Landscape photographer and ‘Dutch artist of the year 2020’, Saskia Boelsums, lives under the same sky as many illustrious Old Masters by whose painting tradition she is formed. ‘The sky is the most impressive part of the Dutch landscape.’
Oeke Hoogendijk Has Made a True Art-Thriller With My Rembrandt
13 May 2020
In My Rembrandt, documentary filmmaker Oeke Hoogendijk portrays the owners of a painting by the Dutch Old Master. She orchestrates their story into a thrilling detective about the hunt for an unknown Rembrandt. But the most beautiful part is that Hoogendijk also focuses on the absurdity of this stor
A Case for Learning to Read Seventeenth-Century Dutch
10 October 2019
If you really want to understand how the Dutch lived and what they thought in the Golden Age, then it is important that you can read the texts they left us. American graduate student in History, Julie van den Hout, is convinced that historical researchers should learn to read 17th century Dutch. On
Dutch Museum Bans Term Golden Age
13 September 2019
The Amsterdam Museum will no longer use the term Golden Age when referring to the 17th century. According to the museum the term does not do justice to those who were exploited during the era in which the Netherlands was at the forefront of scientific discovery and artistic achievement.
Cleveland Museum of Art Acquires Seventeen Dutch Drawings from the Golden Age
26 April 2019
The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) purchased seventeen Dutch drawings from the Golden Age. The acquisition enhances the CMA’s collection of Netherlandish works on paper and allows the museum more fully to represent the variety of subject matter and styles during this prosperous period in Dutch hist
Dutch Masters Reunited in Brussels
25 April 2019
After about 10 years, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels have reopened the permanent wing with Dutch Masters. At the same time there are two exhibitions, called Dutch Spring, that focus on the master-painters of the Golden Age. You can admire both the family portraits of Frans Hal
Don’t Miss These Exhibitions in the Year of Rembrandt
25 March 2019
The year 2019 marks the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt’s death. A good reason to honour his work and his influence on international painting. Large-scale exhibitions are planned throughout the year, and each one tells its own exciting chapter from the life story of this legendary Golden Age painte