Holland - Finestre sull'Arte

The Museum That Took a Chance on Van Gogh: The Extraordinary Story of the Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam

On the night of 1864, a devastating fire swept through the Schielandshuis Palace in the heart of Rotterdam, reducing to ashes more than two-thirds of the art collections accumulated up to that point by the city museum, which had been founded fifteen ...
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The Netherlands: The Mauritshuis and the Rijksmuseum Jointly Acquire a Masterpiece by Avercamp

Joint acquisition by two Dutch museums: the Mauritshuis in The Hague and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam have jointly acquired a masterpiece by Hendrick Avercamp (Amsterdam, 1585 – Kampen, 1634), *Players of Kolf on Ice*, a painting dating from a...
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The Dutch National Museum of Photography opens a new location in Rotterdam

On February 7, 2026, the Nederlands Fotomuseum, National Museum of Photography of the Netherlands, will open its new home in the Santos Warehouse, a recently renovated historic building and now a national monument located on Rotterdam 's Rijnhaven. T...
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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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At the Rijksmuseum, a large immersive exhibition takes us to Dutch homes in the time of Rembrandt and Vermeer

This fall, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam invites the public to immerse themselves in the everyday life of the 17th century with At Home in the 17th Century, a major exhibition intended to explore domestic life in the time of Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Fr...
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In 2023, the first major Vermeer retrospective at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, with loans from around the world

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam will devote a retrospective exhibition for the first time in its history, in the spring of 2023, to Johannes Vermeer, the 17th-century Dutch master and author of the celebrated painting depicting the Girl with a Pearl Ear...
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An exhibition in Holland recreates, and makes you smell, the smells of scenes painted in paintings

An exhibition in which it is possible to ... smell art history. This is the unusual experiment that the Mauritshuis in The Hague (the home of Jan Vermeer's celebrated Girl with a Pearl Earring ) will launch as soon as the Dutch museums reopen their ...
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