Delft was Vermeer’s city. Stand in front of his small painting, The Little Street of 1658 and you will see cobbles and a gabled brick house with leaded windows, just as you still see all around you in the city today.
14 February 2023
X-Ray technology has uncovered a hidden sketch under the surface of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch at the Rijksmuseum
8 December 2021
Banksy Pledges Mural To Save Reading Gaol From Developers – Largest Vermeer Retrospective Announced By Rijksmuseum – Monumental Stonehenge Exhibition For British Museum
7 December 2021
Rembrandt’s The Night Watch has been recreated in its original form for the first time in 300 years. Visitors to Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam can now see the reconstructed composition uniting several sections cut from the painting over the centuries.
23 June 2021
TEFAF Maastricht Cancels 2021 Art Fair – Rijksmuseum Examines Slavery Past Through Art – Robot pAInts Her Way Into Art History
20 May 2021
Most great artistic movements begin as a reaction to the art and times that precede them. Impressionism in the 19th century. Surrealism, Dadaism and the YBAs in the 20th c. Baroque began in Rome around 1600 in response to the austere 17th-century Protestant culture of the Netherlands.
15 February 2020
With his Bob Dylan mop of curls and pug nose, he looks every inch the rebellious teenager that he was.
16 February 2019
Rijksmuseum marks the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt’s death in 2019 with ‘Year of Rembrandt’. The year-long celebration opens with All the Rembrandts (15 February to 10 June)
13 November 2018
High Society is a survey exhibition highlighting thirty-five portraits of the rich, famous and powerful of the day.
11 March 2018
The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam is currently presenting a particularly experimental and mysterious artist from the Dutch Golden Age: Hercules Segers. This… Read More
10 October 2016
After ten years of renovation, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the national museum of Dutch culture and history, reopened in April… Read More
25 September 2014
Frank Auerbach: “Rembrandt is a miraculous draftsman of life in motion and one of the first painters who really moved… Read More
26 November 2013
The Rijksmuseum and Ordovas are staging a unique joint exhibition in the autumn, centred around paintings and etchings by Rembrandt… Read More
3 October 2013
The Netherlands have been busy with a long over due modernisation programme. Two major museums which have seen complete renovation… Read More
8 April 2013
For the past few decades graphic novels have come into their own covering a broad range of subjects from the… Read More
6 March 2013
