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The Rijksmuseum shows the rise of amateur photography in the Netherlands.

The Rijksmuseum has been a major source of inspiration for Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf since his early youth. From 3 July he shows in the Amsterdam museum his photographs in dialogue with Dutch paintings.

Dutch art often appears in debates about identity, and this always happens in terms of what is 'own' and 'foreign' to it. Rembrandt in particular turns out to be very 'malleable'.

Rineke Dijkstra’s new film installation Night Watching shows 14 groups of people looking at Rembrandt’s The Night Watch.

Over the centuries, many Dutch people have contributed to Asian culture and society in various ways.

In April 2013, after a renovation lasting more than ten years, the doors of the famous and iconic Rijksmuseum, the national museum of the Netherlands in Amsterdam, opened again. The article presents the renovation of the building and the n...

About the exhibition ‘Dawn of the Golden Age' held at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and its catalogue: it gave an overview of Dutch art between 1580 and 1620, the period which led up to the Golden Age itself. (‘Dawn of the Golden Age. North...

The work of the painter and etcher Hercules Segers (1589/90-1633/40) has always appealed to the imagination. This chiefly because of his painted and etched landscapes, which make no attempt to depict the reality of the surroundings, but ar...

The Amsterdam Museum ditches ‘Golden Age’ in favour of inclusive ’17th century’.

The Western Australian Museum will make 3D scans to visualise the 17th century silverware that was found in the shipwreck of the ‘Batavia’.

At least five Dutch museums acquired precious work at the world's leading fine art and antiques fair in Maastricht.

At the end of the nineteenth century the city of Amsterdam's two most iconic commissions (the Central Station and the Rijksmuseum), made possible by the favourable economic climate, and hence representative of Dutch national pride, were the...

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

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

Our spring selection of Dutch-language books that have recently been translated into English.

In the 17th century, the Dutch Republic was the center of the European book trade.

Emperor Charles V embodied the complex linguistic situation in the Low Countries.

In the twentieth century, the Dutch gradually became more concerned about cleanliness in their household than about comfort.

Dutch historians have long worked on the assumption that the significance of Atlantic slavery to the Dutch economy was marginal. This assumption is incorrect.

The drawings include natural history scenes, portraiture, genre subjects, figure studies and historical and biblical subjects.

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

Large-scale research shows that the Dutch are unanimous about what makes the Netherlands the Netherlands, despite sharp contradictions in the public debate.

Have you ever wondered why orange is the colour of the Netherlands? You find the answer in the sixteenth century.

Words become outlawed, and people with different opinions soon accuse the other party of engaging in ‘framing’. Are the language police just round the corner?