Dutch art - Finestre sull'Arte

Amsterdam, operational phase of the restoration of Rembrandt's Night Watch begins

After five years of preparation, today a team of eight restorers from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam officially began the restoration of the Night Watch, Rembrandt's masterpiece. This start marks the beginning of the second phase, or the operational ph...
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Rijksmuseum strike at TEFAF: purchased moving portrait of Gesina ter Borch

Quite a coup for the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam at TEFAF in Maastricht, the world's great antiques fair: the Dutch museum has acquired the only signed painting by the painter Gesina ter Borch (Deventer, 1631 - Zwolle, 1690), a member of one of the most...
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Did Vermeer have a workshop? Washington announces groundbreaking discoveries about the artist

In the collective imagination, Jan Vermeer is considered a solitary genius. In reality, he may have had a workshop and collaborators who had to help him realize his works. This is the conclusion reached by the National Gallery in Washington on the ba...
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Biennale, a transnational presentation of our interconnected existence at the Holland Pavilion

Entitled The measurement of presence, the exhibition the Netherlands is bringing to its pavilion at the fifty-eighth Venice Biennale. To represent theNetherlands, curator Benno Tempel, commissioned by Mondriaan Fund, has called on artists Iris Kensmi...
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Gerrit van Honthorst's wonderful nocturnal nativities preserved in the Uffizi.

Among the most beautiful Nativities in the history of art is the Adorationof the Child by Gerrit van Honthorst (Utrecht, 1592 1656), also known in Italy as Gherardo delle Notti, for his penchant for painting touching and evocative nocturnal scenes....
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Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum presents its works at the airport

Promotional initiative for the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which decided to bring some of its art to the local Schiphol Airport. In fact, the 73 meters of belt number 16 in baggage claim in Hall 3 have been decorated with images of forty-five paintings...
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