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The Curious Life of Rembrandt and His Forgotten Painter Friend Jan Lievens

30 May 2024

They both lived during the Dutch Golden Age, grew up in Leiden, were taught by the same painter, shared a studio, received all the praise, and painted the rulers of their time. And yet, Jan Lievens is not as famous today as his friend Rembrandt.

Jalil Sultani: Dear Johannes

19 January 2024

Eighteen young Flemish and Dutch authors have taken inspiration from seventeenth-century artefacts from the Rijksmuseum. Looking at these objects, what eureka moments do they see? Jalil Sultani wrote a letter inspired by the book held by Johannes Wtenbogaert on Rembrandt van Rijn’s portrait of him

Warts, Alcoholic Noses And Weird Beards: ‘Turning Heads’ Is An Animated Viewing Adventure

18 December 2023

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. This was in vogue in the seventeenth century, with influential 'head painters' such as Rembrandt, Rubens and Vermeer.

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

Dutch Government Plans to Purchase Rembrandt’s ‘The Standard Bearer’ for the National Collection

13 December 2021

The Dutch Government announced its intention to purchase Rembrandt’s The Standard Bearer (1636) for the national collection. For centuries, the masterpiece has been owned by private collectors, including England’s King George IV and, since 1844, the Rothschild family.

The Graphic Appetite of Comics Artist Typex

14 July 2021

Typex, pen name of Dutch graphic novelist Raymond Koot, might refer to the famous correction fluid, but his work seems to be almost effortless. His illustrations, varied as they are, reveal the quality of timeless design, particularly the graphic spectacle of his cartoon biographies of Rembrandt and

Rembrandt’s Night Watch Reconstructed

1 July 2021

Visitors to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam can now enjoy The Night Watch in its original form, for the first time in 300 years. Several sections were cut from the painting in the past. The Operation Night Watch team has recreated these missing pieces, which have now been mounted around Rembrandt’s w

Painting by Ferdinand Bol Donated to the Rembrandt House Museum

28 January 2021

The Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam has received an important donation: the painting Shepherdess in a Landscape by Ferdinand Bol, one of Rembrandt's most famous pupils. The painting was donated to the museum by the Hoogsteder family to support the museum during the current Covid pandemic.

When Painting and Photography Merge Into One

23 November 2020

The Dutch portrait photographer Hendrik Kerstens struggles to choose amongst the many Old Masters that inspire him. Ultimately, he decides upon Jan van Eyck’s (ca. 1390-1441) Man in Red Turban (Man met de rode tulband, c. 1433) and the Portrait of Haesje Jacobsdr. van Cleyburg (1634) painted by Re

The Influence of Netherlandish Printmaking Spanned From Italy to Russia

10 July 2020

It is noticeable that there has been an international passion for prints from the Low Countries recently. Museums from all over the world have been organising exhibitions and congresses on engravings and etchings, especially those from the dawn of the Golden Age. That is not really surprising becaus

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

This Is How the Rembrandt Year Has Made Our Image of the Dutch Master More Complete

31 January 2020

What unusual materials did Rembrandt paint with? What did his social network and love life look like? And what do we know about his early years? Thanks to the many exhibitions, events and conferences organized in 2019, marking the 350th anniversary of his death, we gained new insights about one of t

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