A prosperous middle class eager to express its status and its new sense of national pride, replaced the church and monarchy as the primary patrons of art.
1600 - 1700
A prosperous middle class eager to express its status and its new sense of national pride, replaced the church and monarchy as the primary patrons of art.
1600 - 1700
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The earliest known signed work by Jacob van Walscapelle undergoes thorough conservation work at the V&A, including reattaching paint flakes, removing discoloured varnish, and applying new varnish
From the end of the sixteenth century the Dutch East India Company developed a vast network of trading posts through South-east Asia.
Andries Beeckman's landscape painting with the so-called Castle of Batavia (in what is today Jakarta, Indonesia) highlights Dutch prowess and strength during their ascension to colonial power in the seventeenth century.
As we can see in a closer examination of The Jewish Cemetery, Ruisdael's works were closely based on, but not entirely beholden to, the world he saw around him.
Rembrandt's enigmatic self-portrait at Kenwood House is an apt example of the artist's long career in self-exploration.
Perspective is the star of this painting. Saenredam expertly widens the viewpoint to create an interior panorama.
With its almost sculptural surface and dazzling range of textures, this painting once reduced van Gogh to tears.
Built for nobility and now home to royals, this palace has a checkered past. It held art, then political prisoners.
Is this the eighth wonder of the world? Amsterdam’s leaders thought so—their hall contains a universe in miniature.
Virtue, or vice? This seated woman is an icon of domesticity, but the man’s money may tempt her away from work.
The subjects appear quiet and austere, yet Hals’s expressive use of paint animates this group portrait.
In this painting, Rembrandt plays with the division between reality and illusion, present and past. Who’s the girl?
Roger Shimomura
Superman makes an appearance in what looks (at first sight) like a Japanese print.