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By April next year, CODART will publish its canon list of masterpieces in book form.

You can choose which Flemish and Dutch works of art deserve a place in the CODART Canon.

CODART, the international network of curators of Dutch and Flemish art, has announced the CODART Canon.

The Royal Library of Belgium published a new reference work on its collection of Flemish and Dutch drawings from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century.

‘Breakfast Piece’ by Pieter Claesz. is one of the hundred masterpieces of early modern Dutch and Flemish art in the CODART Canon.

‘The Spinario’ by Jan Gossart is one of the hundred masterpieces of early modern Dutch and Flemish art in the CODART Canon.

‘A Pair of Wedding Gloves’ is one of the hundred masterpieces of early modern Dutch and Flemish art in the CODART Canon.

‘The Iconography’ by Anthony van Dyck is one of the hundred masterpieces of early modern Dutch and Flemish art in the CODART Canon.

The ‘Saint George Altarpiece’ by Jan Borman is one of the hundred masterpieces of early modern Dutch and Flemish art in the CODART Canon.

'The Diptych of Maarten van Nieuwenhove' by Hans Memling is one of the hundred masterpieces of early modern Dutch and Flemish art in the CODART Canon.

‘Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels’ by Clara Peeters is one of the hundred masterpieces of early modern Dutch and Flemish art in the CODART Canon.

Jacob Cornelisz was one of the most important Dutch artists of the first half of the sixteenth century. He was Amsterdam’s first printmaker.

‘The Dollhouse of Sara Rothé’ is one of the hundred masterpieces of early modern Dutch and Flemish art in the CODART Canon.

‘The Tomb of Mary Burgundy’ is one of the hundred masterpieces of early modern Dutch and Flemish art in the CODART Canon.

The painting was donated by an art dealer to support the museum during the current Covid pandemic.

'Enclosed Garden with Saints Elisabeth, Ursula and Catharina' is one of the hundred masterpieces of early modern Dutch and Flemish art in the CODART Canon.

‘Triptych of the Last Supper’ by Dieric Bouts is one of the hundred masterpieces of early modern Dutch and Flemish art in the CODART Canon.

The painting is the second Ter Brugghen for the Met’s collection, next to The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John.

An overview of the latest museum acquisitions of old Dutch and Flemish Art.

The monumental painting ‘Fall of the Rebel Angels’ by Frans Floris is one of the hundred masterpieces of early modern Dutch and Flemish art in the CODART Canon.

These two portraits, of a kind rarely seen in public collections, will now better represent Ostade’s oeuvre within Cambridge and the UK.

The core of Leiden University’s collection of European ‘art on paper’ is now available in digital form for education, research and the interested public.

Visitors to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam can now enjoy The Night Watch in its original form, for the first time in 300 years.

The original paint layer has been exposed again, revealing details that have remained hidden for many years.

An overview of the latest museum acquisitions of old Dutch and Flemish Art.

The Flemish Art Collection has launched a new website dedicated entirely to the life and work of Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

The Cathedral crypt has been extensively adapted for visitors to experience the artwork’s history, via new visual technology.

This summer, some museums have enriched their collections by acquiring beautiful early modern Dutch and Flemish art.

Starting this autumn, you can discover the prestigious library for the first time on your own.

Volume 68 (2018) of the Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art appeared.

An overview of the latest museum acquisitions of old Dutch and Flemish Art.

Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden reopened its doors after a thorough restoration and expansion.

An overview of the latest museum acquisitions of old Dutch and Flemish Art.

It is the largest acquisition in the history of the museum and is an important transaction for Dutch-English heritage.

The Standard Bearer was Rembrandt's artistic breakthrough, that would lead to The Night Watch. The Netherlands wants to ad it to the national collection.

It has long been suspected that two landscape paintings by Cuyp belonged together but until now, scientific proof was missing.

CODART – the international network of curators of early modern Dutch and Flemish art – is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. To mark this joyous occasion, every month we introduce you to one of the hundred exceptional masterpieces ...

The most important Dutch and Flemish works of art from before 1750 have been brought together in a beautiful book.

The Agnes Etherington Art Centre acquired 'Head of an Old Man with Curly Hair'.

Join us in bidding goodbye to 2023 with some of the most surprising stories we have published this year on the beautiful art being made in Flanders and the Netherlands.

Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum has gathered together 28 of Johannes Vermeer’s 37 known paintings from around the world. Here you can read all our stories about the famous seventeenth-century Dutch master.

The ‘Canon of Flanders’ is a list of events, people and traditions that, according to the expert committee, define today’s Flanders.

‘About suffering they were never wrong, The old Masters’ DUTCH AND FLEMISH ARTISTS AROUND THE GLOBE On 20 January 2017, a mural appeared on Barthélémylaan/Boulevard Barthélémy on the Canal in Brussels, of an imminent beheading. The knif...

The exhibition 'Ode to Antwerp' at Museum Catharijneconvent in Utrecht explicitly presents old masters from the Low Countries and not from Holland or Flanders.

The ART Curator Prize for the best exhibition of 2018 in Austria goes to the curators of the world's first major monographic exhibition on Pieter Bruegel the Elder in the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna.

The year 2019 marks the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt’s death. Large-scale exhibitions are planned throughout the year.

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