Netherlands - 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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New Rembrandt work discovered: announcement from Rijksmuseum

A new work officially enters the catalog of Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden, 1606 - Amsterdam, 1669). In fact, researchers at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam have shown that a painting, the Vision of Zechariah in the Temple, dated 1633, can be assigned to th...
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A major retrospective in Ghent on 40 women artists active in the Netherlands between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

The Museum of Fine Arts Ghent continues its commitment to highlighting women artists in 2026. After the exhibitions devoted to the Baroque and the theme Women in Art, the focus is now on Unforgettable (March 7 to May 31, 2026), a major retrospective ...
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The Rijksmuseum will have a branch office in Eindhoven

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam will have a branch office in Eindhoven thanks to a collaboration between the Rijksmuseum and the City of Eindhoven. A new cultural hub will be built where visitors will be able to view works from the Dutch museum's renown...
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The Netherlands will return to Egypt a head from the dynasty of Thutmose III

Netherlands Prime Minister Dick Schoof has announced that the Netherlands will return toEgypt an ancient stone head dating back to the dynasty of Thutmose III. The find, described as an important artifact of Egyptian historical heritage, had been sei...
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Roman oil lamp decorated with a mask discovered in the Netherlands, a unicum in the country

During archaeological excavations in the Nutriciaterrein area of Cuijk, in the province of North Brabant, in the north of the Netherlands, a find believed to be extremely rare has emerged: a Roman oil lamp finely decorated with a mask. The discovery ...
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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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