Adrian VI is the only Dutch pope ever. He was elected completely unexpectedly exactly five hundred years ago, in 1522. Adrian grew up in Utrecht and made a career in the service of Emperor Charles V. More Info
Exhibition: XXL Paper: Big, Bigger, Biggest!
XXL Paper presents the biggest works on paper from the Rijksmuseum collection – very few of them have ever been exhibited before, because of their size. The actual design drawings for the More Info
Exhibition: Rembrandt in Alkmaar: The Standard Bearer on Tour
In July 2022, Rembrandt’s The Standard Bearer will be on display in Alkmaar. The masterpiece fits perfectly into the collection of Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar. The museum has no less than 16 militia More Info
Exhibition: The Renaissance in the North: New Prints and Perspectives
Printmaking flourished in Northern Europe during the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as artists harnessed the power of the multiplied image. Relatively inexpensive, portable, and widely More Info
Exhibition: The Fabrics of Representation
The ability of art to closely mimic nature formed a well-established trope in European painting of the early modern period. The intensified circulation of goods in trade-based empires such as the More Info
Exhibition: Dutch Drawings: Highlights from the Rijksmuseum
In the atmospheric Print Gallery, this exhibition offers a rare opportunity to view in Ireland works by seventeenth-century Dutch artists from the collection of the world-famous Rijksmuseum. Drawings More Info