Art Surpassing Nature: Dutch Landscapes in the Age.I keep wondering if it is every man's dream to have a wife and then mistress(es).Veronese: Magnificence in Renaissance Venice.Looking East: Western Artists and the Allure of Japan.Toulouse-Lautrec and La Vie Moderne: Paris 1800-1910.Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953вЂ“1966.THE IMAGE OF THE EUROPEAN CITY FROM THE RENAISSANC.German Expressionism: A Revolutionary Spirit.Edvard Munch: Symbolism in Print, Masterworks from.Georgia OвЂ™Keeffe and Ansel Adams: The Hawaii Pictures.A vision of the contemporary city 1910-1930вЂќ 500 Years of Italian Master Drawings from the Prin.Gustav Klimt in the Sign of Hoffmann and the Seces.John Constable: Oil Sketches from the Victoria and.Genius and Grace: Francois Boucher and the Generat.Lasting Impressions of the Grand Tour: Giuseppe Va.Metropolis: labor issues, class division, industri.Picturing Power: Capitalism, Democracy, and Americ.American Moderns, 1910вЂ“1960: From O'Keeffe to Rock.A Country House in New York: Highlights from The F.Along His Own Lines A Retrospective of New York Re.ThГ©odore GГ©ricault - Museum of Fine Arts Ghent.Face to Face: The Neo-Impressionist Portrait, 1886.Renaissance Impressions Chiaroscuro woodcuts from.Anders Zorn at the National Academy Museum, NYC.Golden: Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Ros.An unexpected highlight was the painting Orpheus Charming the Animals (c. In the portraits section, masterpieces by Rembrandt and Frans Hals stood out, while everyday life took center stage in the work of painters such as Jan Steen, Nicolaes Maes, Adriaen van Ostade and Frans van Mieris the Elder. Admirers of seascapes like also enjoyed Jan van de Cappelle and Simon de VliegerвЂ™s beautiful paintings. The work of Nicolaes Berchem, Jan Both, Karel du Jardin and Adam Pijnacker focuses on the Italian landscape.ДЇather and son Willem van de Velde the Elder and Willem van de Velde the Younger depict the Dutch Republic as a seafaring nation. The Dutch landscape is well represented with, among others, three works by the leading landscape artist of the Golden Age, Jacob van Ruisdael. These will be shown alongside works by famous still-life painters such as Jan Davidsz de Heem and Willem Heda. In the exhibition, first-rate paintings will be grouped in ensembles, with an emphasis on still lifes, landscapes, genre paintings and portraits.ДЄmong the still lifes, a number of rare works by painters from Middelburg, including Balthasar van der Ast, Ambrosius Bosschaert and Adrian Coorte, are of particular interest. Masterpieces by Aert van der Neer, Esaias van de Velde, Gabriel Metsu, Salomon de Bray and Pieter Claesz were acquired in 20.ДЄ pretty, yet insolent young girl, a dog sleeping peacefully, winter landscapes or a summer scene with shepherds and picturesque mountains: the pictures in Made in Holland illustrate the versatility of seventeenth-century Dutch painting. The Hague, Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis Paintings of extraordinarily high quality continue to be added, such as RembrandtвЂ™s Portrait of Aeltje Uylenburg: Simon Levie (advisor from 1995), former director of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and Frits Duparc, former director of the Mauritshuis (who took over from Levie in 2009), were closely involved in shaping this exceptionally beautiful collection. Peter Sutton, current director of the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, suggested that they collect works by seventeenth-century Dutch masters. The selection included works by Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Paulus Potter, Jan Steen and Hendrick Avercamp.Дutch collectors Eijk and Rose-Marie de Mol van Otterloo, started collecting after their marriage in 1974, initially acquiring antique carriages and English sporting prints. Not only are these works of outstanding quality, their subject matter is often intriguing. The exhibition Made in Holland: Old Masters from a private collection in America featured 44 masterpieces produced by Dutch masters during the Golden Age. A selection of highlights from the remarkable art collection of Eijk and Rose-Marie de Mol van Otterloo was on display at the Mauritshuis in The Hague in 2011.

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