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David Weel: That Afternoon in the Forest
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? David Weel invites us to look at Dying Adonis by the painter Hendrick Goltzius. ‘Can you feel it? How the light is starting to shine?’

Hendrick Goltzius, Dying Adonis, 1609 © Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
That Afternoon in the Forest



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