During a festive ceremony at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston on Sunday 7 April, CODART Patrons Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo and Susan and Matthew Weatherbie received Royal decorations and were [...] Read More
Museum News
New Boletín del Museo del Prado Published
The Museo del Prado published the latest issue of Boletín del Museo del Prado. The Boletin aims to present the outcome of new research on works in the collection of the Prado and on related topics in [...] Read More
Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest Acquires Van Dyck’s Portrait of Princess Mary Henrietta Stewart
https://www.codart.nl/acquisitions/anthony-van-dyck-acquired-by-museum-of-fine-art-budapest/ [...] Read More
Metropolitan Museum of Art Blog Publishes on Jan van Eyck Frames
Two new installments have appeared on The Met’s blog. Unlocking the Mysteries of Two Jan van Eyck Frames by Maryan Ainsworth, and Part Two: Imaging the Hidden Details by Silvia A. Centeno focus on the [...] Read More
Mauritshuis Acquires Lastman Painting
Mauritshuis Scores Painting by Rembrandt’s Teacher, and Nationalmuseum Acquires Two 18th-Century [...] Read More
Eric Jan Sluijter to Deliver Public Lectures at Harvard Art Museums
Eric Jan Sluijter to deliver three public lectures at the Harvard Art Museums, February/March 2019 In collaboration with the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard, the Harvard [...] Read More
Met Launches New Prints & Drawings Website
This online feature outlines the most common techniques for making prints, and the Met will add the same for drawings in spring 2019. Through the descriptions of each technique, as well as the [...] Read More
The Night Watch Will Be Publicly Restored in 2019
Members of the public will be invited to watch the restoration of ‘The Night Watch’, Rembrandt’s most celebrated masterpiece next year. The project will begin in July 2019 and the public will be able [...] Read More
JVDPPP launches new open access resources on 17th century Antwerp panel makers
The JVDPPP website has now been greatly expanded with new and essential documents and information on the Antwerp panel makers whose marks can be found on the backs of panels painted on by Sir Peter [...] Read More
Website ‘Inside Bruegel’ has Launched
The new web application Inside Bruegel provides unprecedented access to high-resolution images of the twelve paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in Vienna, also in infrared and X-ray. The site is an [...] Read More
Restoration of Pieter Bruegel’s ‘Dulle Griet’ Reveals New Discoveries
Peter Bruegel the Elder’s Dulle Griet has regained its spectacular original appearance with the rediscovery during restoration of a blue-green sky. Experts at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage [...] Read More
Museum De Lakenhal Discovers New Rembrandt
Museum De Lakenhal released a statement about the recently discovered painting that can be attributed to Rembrandt. The discovery was published in the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant on 14 September. [...] Read More
Rubenianum Receives Archive of Bruegel Expert Walter S. Gibson
The Rubenianum is receiving the archive of the American art historian Prof. Walter S. Gibson. Gibson is the definitive authority on Bruegel research. His archive comprises the result of more than 60 [...] Read More
Museo del Prado Opens New Galleries of Flemish and Dutch Painting
As a result of the need for space to house different internal museum services, in 2004 the galleries on the second floor were taken out of the Permanent Collection route and used as temporary storage [...] Read More
Cleveland Art Museum Acquires a Violin Player by Van Baburen and a Drawing by Stradanus
The Cleveland Art Museum announced the addition of two Dutch works to the collection. They include the The Violin Player, a Caravaggesque genre painting by Dirck van Baburen and a mythological drawing [...] Read More