After a five-year closure, the renovated Gruuthusemuseum opened its doors on 25 May 2019. The imposing city palace in the heart of Bruges closed in 2014 for a complete renovation and restoration. New [...] Read More
Museum News
Joslyn Art Museum Acquires Stunning Maria van Oosterwyck Still Life
(Omaha, NE) – Joslyn Art Museum today announced the purchase of a seventeenth-century canvas, Still Life of Flowers in a Glass Vase (about 1685), by Dutch artist Maria van Oosterwyck (1630–1693). One [...] Read More
Rembrandt Year Exhibitions
The year 2019 marks the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt van Rijn’s death. Special exhibitions and presentations will be held throughout the year, in venues that include the Rijksmuseum, Museum Het [...] Read More
Hidden Cupid Revealed in Dresden Vermeer
A hidden picture of Cupid was revealed in Vermeer’s famous Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window in Dresden. Previous x-ray examinations from the 1980s indicated that a picture of a naked Cupid in [...] Read More
Het Scheepvaartmuseum Opens New Exhibit on the Dutch Republic at Sea
The National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam (Het Scheepvaartmuseum) will open two new semi-permanent displays of its collection on 10 May 2019: Republic at Sea and Maps & Marvels. The Main [...] Read More
Fourth Rembrandt Donated to the Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen’s University
Linda and Daniel Bader have donated Rembrandt van Rijn’s Head of an Old Man with Curly Hair (1659) [Corpus VI, no. 276] to the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in honour of Daniel’s late father [...] Read More
Robert Wolterstorff to Succeed Peter Sutton as Director of Bruce Museum
The Bruce Museum announced that its board of trustees has appointed Robert Wolterstorff as Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer. The appointment will take effect on 1 June 2019 and follows [...] Read More
Cleveland Acquires 17 Dutch Drawings
Cleveland Museum of Art Acquires Seventeen Dutch Drawings from the Golden Age Thursday, 25 April 2019 The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) purchased seventeen Dutch drawings. The acquisition [...] Read More
Caravaggio’s Medusa to join exhibit of Utrecht Caravaggisti in Munich
Last week—quite literally at the eleventh hour—the Bavarian State Painting Collections received news that the Italian Ministry of the Interior and the authorities for cultural-heritage protection in [...] Read More
Van Otterloos and Weatherbies Appointed Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau
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
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