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Germany, Rembrandt masterpiece from Frankfurt's Städel Museum goes for restoration

The Städel Museum in Frankfurt has announced the start of a major restoration and conservation project of one of the most significant works in its collection: The Blinding of Samson, painted by Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden, 1606 - Amsterdam, 1669)...
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The Night Watch dog: discovered the artist who inspired Rembrandt

Researchers at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam have discovered the drawing of the dog on which Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn; Leiden, 1606 - Amsterdam, 1669) relied to paint the barking dog in The Night Watch, one of his most famous masterpieces. It is ...
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Utrecht, a contemporary artist reinterprets the colonial gaze of an 18th-century artist

A unique dialogue between ancient and contemporary at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, the Netherlands, from Sept. 13, 2025 to Feb. 13, 2026: as part of the exhibition, Dutch artist Willem de Rooij (Beverwijk, 1969) analyzes the visual culture of the ...
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Vermeer, the two "guitarists" compared after three centuries: what is their relationship?

For the first time in more than three centuries, two nearly identical canvases that have long been discussed will be found next to each other: they are the celebrated Woman Playing the Guitar by Johannes Vermeer (Delft, 1632 - 1675) and its enigmatic...
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Rijksmuseum, all new findings on Vermeer in a book published for the 350th anniversary of his death

New discoveries are emerging about Johannes Vermeer's creative process, particularly about the famous painting View of Houses in Delft, also known as The Little Street, created around 1658-1659. Recent studies have revealed that in an early version o...
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The National Gallery is enriched with three new works: Degas, a German Romantic and a Dutch

Three new acquisitions for the National Gallery in London on the occasion of the museum's bicentennial are a pastel by Edgar Degas depicting Ballerinas, Carl Gustav Carus ' View of the Sky from a Prison Window, and Floris van Dijck's Still Life with ...
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Worcester Art Museum brings together an extraordinary 16th-century triptych by Maerten van Heemskerck

After centuries of separation, the Worcester Art Museum (WAM) in Massachusetts , United States, has succeeded in an extraordinary feat: to reunite for the first time since its separation a 16th-century triptych by the Dutch painter Maerten van Heemsk...
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Netherlands, Mauritshuis in The Hague revises attributions of three paintings given to Rembrandt

The Mauritshuis inThe Hague, one of the most important museums in the Netherlands and home to an important nucleus of Rembrandt 's works (with masterpieces such as The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, theHomer, theSelf-Portrait from his last year...
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