The Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Kassel has received an important landscape painting by Marten van Valckenborch through the bequest of Adelaide Rothfels (1921-2015). (From Codart News, November [...] Read More
Museum News
Städel Museum Launches Online Research Project
The Städel Museum launched its online research project Time Machine in October 2016. Visitors can explore the historical exhibition rooms in three-dimensional constructions: [...] Read More
National Gallery of Ireland Acquires Two Paintings
The National Gallery of Ireland has acquired Head of a Bearded Man by Peter Paul Rubens, and Village Kermesse near Antwerp, by David Teniers II from the Alfred Beit Foundation, Russborough. Both [...] Read More
Ackland Art Museum (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) Acquires Peck Collection of Drawings
In January 2017, Dr. Sheldon Peck, a long-time member of HNA, and his wife Leena donated their extraordinary collection of old-master drawings to the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North [...] Read More
Groeninge Museum Acquires Late-Medieval Panel
The Groeninge Museum has acquired a late-medieval panel depicting The Mass of St. Gregory. The panel was formerly part of the collection of the Marqués de Conquistas in Madrid and has been considered [...] Read More
Gemäldegalerie Presents Autoradiography Findings on Rembrandt Painting
The Gemäldegalerie in Berlin by using neutron-activation autoradiography discovered that a large part of Rembrandt’s Susanna and the Elders was overpainted by Joshua Reynolds. In this method paintings [...] Read More
Pieter Bruegel the Elder Website Launches
The new website of the complete works of Pieter Bruegel the Elder has been launched: www.pieterbruegel.net. It is connected to the website on Jan Brueghel: www.janbrueghel.net. Elizabeth Alice Honig [...] Read More
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Acquires Van Dyck Study
The Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, has acquired Study of a Bearded Old Man in Profile by Anthony van Dyck. (From Codart News, January 2017) [...] Read More
Maerten de Vos Calumny of Apelles on View in Antwerp
The little-known Calumny of Apelles by Maerten de Vos (1532-1603) is on extended loan to the Rubenshuis from a private collection, but will be on display at the refurbished Museum of Fine Arts in [...] Read More
Rijksmuseum Exhibits Natural History Paper Museum of Rudolf II
The Rijksmuseum is exhibiting the Natural History Paper Museum of Emperor Rudolf II. This unique collection of 750 watercolors of animals, birds and plants was compiled between 1596 and 1610 as a [...] Read More
Rijksmuseum Acquires Rare Liotard Oil Painting
The Rijksmuseum acquired A Dutch Girl at Breakfast by the Swiss pastellist Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-1789). One of his few oil paintings, it was created in the style of Dutch seventeenth-century [...] Read More
Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar Acquires Salomon van Ruysdael Painting
The Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar has acquired Salomon van Ruysdael’s View of Alkmaar. Van Ruysdael painted Alkmaar fourteen times, this being the earliest. [...] Read More