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Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam

The Rijksmuseum is a major European treasury of art, the national art gallery of Holland. It houses the world’s greatest collection of Dutch paintings of 17C, the Golden Age. It is also a museum for Dutch history, art objects, drawings, sculptures and furniture. The building was opened in 1885. Its building was one of the first to be constructed specially as a museum. In 2004 the museum largely closed for 10 years to undertake a major renovation. The major features of the renovation were the of construction two large atriums covered by glass roofs to provide more amenity spaces for the visitors. The garden was also modified, statues were added, for the visitors to relax and enjoy the summer sun. <br><br>This presentation is a brief introduction to some of the best known and finest paintings, by the famous painters of Dutch Golden Age. Among them are Rembrandt, Vermeer, Frans Hals, Steen etc.<br>

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Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam

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  1. R ijksmuseum Amsterdam, Netherlands All rights reserved. Rights belong to their respective owners. Available free for non-commercial, Educational and personal use. First created, July 2008. Version 2.0 9 Dec 2014, London. Jerry Tse.

  2. This relief panel is on the façade of the museum. It inscribed the official opening date of the museum, 1885.

  3. In 2004, the museum began a modernization project. The main features were to build two glass-roof atriums, covering the existing enclosed quadrangles. This is the ticketing Auditorium. The project was completed in 2013,

  4. Apart from the well-known collection of paintings, the museum also has a variety of artefacts on displays. Like this magnificent German desk was made in flamboyant Rococo style. Unusually, it has a 3D inlays picture of a room, made from various woods, tortoiseshell, silver, mother of pearl, copper, ivory and gilded bronze mounting.

  5. The different galleries are organized in chronological order from the Middle Age to Modern Art and photography.

  6. Netherlandish Painting

  7. Italian Painting Mary Magdalene (Detail). C1487. 152x49 cm. Tempera on panel. Carlo Crivelli. Italian.

  8. Beginning of the Golden Age. Early Dutch landscape of winter scene, packed with numerous well crafted person enjoying themselves.

  9. Details of the Frozen landscape.

  10. Details of the Frozen landscape.

  11. Honthorst – The Merry Fiddler Causal Portrait Honthorst was a follower of Caravaggio. Also known for his immortalized momentary laughter.

  12. Causal Portrait Frans Hals was one of the best portraitist of his time. He worked very fast.

  13. Rembrandt’s self-portrait

  14. Official Portrait of Civil Duties

  15. Official Portrait of Civil Duties One of best known Frans Hals official portraits..

  16. Detail of the posers Detail of Militia Company of District XI (previous slide). Frans Hals did a good job of making middle age men playing soldiers, looking glamorous and believable.

  17. Official Portrait of Civil Duties

  18. Detail of the posers

  19. Rembrandt‘s Call to duty.

  20. Close-up of the Night Watch.

  21. An early Still Life of plenty

  22. The Luxury of Still Life.

  23. Detail of Cheese Still Lifte.

  24. Still Life of texture and luster

  25. Still Life of Flora.

  26. Specialist in painting cattle and horses

  27. Mother swan defends the Dutch egg from the English dog.

  28. Townscape

  29. Townscape

  30. A late Rembrandt.

  31. Vermeer’s perfection

  32. Exquisite detail of the Milkmaid

  33. A captiviting pregnant woman (?) reading love letter from a distant place (?)

  34. Jan Steen, A painter of humorous scenes of the common folk

  35. Jan Steen – Another warm hearted animated scene.

  36. Dutch Landscape

  37. Italian Landscape

  38. Detail of Italian Landscape Italian Landscape with Draughtsman (Detail).

  39. The sky and the sea landscape Jacob Ruisdael best known landscape paintingof the sea and sky.

  40. Rembrandt – Landscape painting in a flat country.

  41. Pieter Hooch’s domestic scene

  42. Gabriel Metsu – The Sick Child Another mother, another child by Michelangelo?

  43. Willem Velde the Younger Marine Painting

  44. Marine Painting

  45. Marine Painting - detail

  46. Post Impressionist Portrait

  47. Museum Library

  48. 17th Century Dutch Society The 17th century Dutch society enjoyed unprecedented wealth. Its prosperity was based on her marine trade. Her supremacy in trading were derived from two advantages. The first was the technology to construct a faster and lighter ship for its trade. The second was her ability to pool together the wealth of her citizen to provide a large source risk capital for commerce (capitalism). Even in our casual glance on the history of her paintings on the period shows how these wealth were permeated into the creation of the middle class. (You can see a rising popularity of small format paintings, which was an indication that the ‘common’ citizen were wealthy enough to buy paintings for their homes.) The ‘dad’s army’, in which ordinary citizen served, to carry out their civic duty is a reflection of their politics. Dutch was governed as a republic (with no monarch). Several well known large-scale paintings of these civic guards are in the collection at the Rijksmuseum, including one by Frans Hals and one by Rembrandt. One striking feature of these paintings is the lacking of religious subject matters. Why do you think it is the case? Click to advance to next slide.

  49. The End This is the second glass roof atrium, which accommodates a café and a shop, as part of the modernization project. Music – Gymnopedie for piano No 1 performed on guitar by Dominic Miller. All rights reserved. Rights belong to their respective owners. Available free for non-commercial and personal use.

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