Of the paintings in the Rijksmuseum, around 230 are still lifes. Life literally stands still in these arranged displays of objects, including shells, books, skulls and dead animals, as well as living ...

inscribed: lower left, with the mark of Esdaile, in brown ink, WE (L. 2617) stamped: lower left, with the mark of Lawrence (L. 2445) inscribed on verso: upper left (with the sheet turned upside down), ...

Through paintings such as this, believers could follow the episodes of Christ’s Passion and identify with his pain and suffering. In the background, he collapses under the weight of the cross. Next he ...

Honden zijn op veel schilderijen weergegeven, maar vooral op genrestukken uit de 17de eeuw. Ze zijn afgebeeld in huiselijke scènes of op ‘conversatiestukken’: informele groepsportretten van ...

Binnen de groep schilderijen met verhalende voorstellingen, de ‘historiestukken’, zijn die met Bijbelse voorstellingen ruim vertegenwoordigd. De meeste middeleeuwse schilderijen stellen taferelen voor ...

RIJKS® has dining down to an art RIJKS® was awarded a Michelin star in 2016, climbed from 16.5 to 17 points in the 2019 Gault & Millau guide and in the same year earned a spot in the brand-new ranking ...

Make a print of your favourite detail Download this work and make your own creation Order a ready-made poster of this work Madonna met kind. Maria, ten halven lijve, achter een balustrade waar het ...

The marble niche in which the Virgin and the Child are seated is a veritable sample-book of the modern Renaissance style. Pilasters and balusters, semi-circular alcoves, rams’ heads, cornucopias and ...

A maidservant pours milk, entirely absorbed in her work. Except for the stream of milk, everything else is still. Vermeer took this simple everyday activity and made it the subject of an impressive ...

Peeter Baltens, a painter in the circle of Pieter Bruegel, played an important role in the Antwerp artists’ guild. He was also a rederijker (rhetorician): a poet and an actor. A comic dramatic work is ...

De Lairesse painted this ceiling for the Great Hall of Soestdijk Palace, which William III used as his hunting lodge at the time. The scene of Diana, the goddess of the hunt, alludes to this. De ...

Make a print of your favourite detail Download this work and make your own creation Order a ready-made poster of this work Portret van Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), natuurkundige te Delft.