The support consists of three horizontally grained oak planks (20.2, 28 and 26.7 cm), and has been thinned to a thickness of 0.7-0.9 cm and cradled. The thinning of the panel has exposed the dowel ...

Following five years of intensive research and the re-stretching of the painting, today a team of eight Rijksmuseum conservators started removing the varnish from The Night Watch. This marks the ...

Rembrandts beroemdste en grootste doek werd gemaakt voor de Kloveniersdoelen. Dit was een van de verenigingsgebouwen van de Amsterdamse schutterij, de burgerwacht van de stad. Rembrandt was de eerste ...

Korean artist Lee Ufan describes his work as ‘art of the encounter’. Find time this summer for your very own calm encounter with Lee Ufan’s sculptures, among the hustle and bustle of museum square.

The Fleming Adriaen van Utrecht here demonstrated that he could paint virtually anything, from costly tableware to glass, fruit, an enormous lobster on a Chinese plate, a cut-open pasty, and much more ...

In Monet’s time La Corniche was a narrow mountain track; nowadays, it is the main road between Nice and Monaco. Here the sun is high, the lone walker’s shadow short. Monet’s colours glisten: red, ...

Rembrandt’s largest, most famous canvas was made for the Arquebusiers guild hall. This was one of several halls of Amsterdam’s civic guard, the city’s militia and police. Rembrandt was the first to ...

L'emblématique Rijksmuseum, situé au cœur d'Amsterdam, est l'une des choses à voir absolument si vous visitez les Pays-Bas. Plongez dans l'art et l'histoire des Pays-Bas avec des chefs-d'œuvre de ...

The Shop and The Café are open from 9 am to 6 pm. These are only accessible with an entrance ticket to the museum until 5 pm. Between 5 and 6 pm you can enter without an entrance ticket. RIJKS ...

Nadat hij van zijn broer Theo had gehoord over de nieuwe kleurige Franse schilderkunst ging Vincent in 1886 in Parijs wonen. Al snel probeerde hij de Franse stijl uit op een aantal zelfportretten. Dit ...

Vincent moved to Paris in 1886, after hearing from his brother Theo about the new, colourful style of French painting. Wasting no time, he tried it out in several self-portraits. He did this mostly to ...

Mary Magdalene can be recognized by the jar of ointment in her hands with which she cared for Jesus’ feet following her conversion to Christianity. She is usually depicted as a prostitute, referencing ...