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