Timeline

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Dutch Art, Dutch Golden Age, Dutch History, History, Museums, Rijksmuseum, Timeline

Click here for a timeline of Dutch history from the Rijks Museum.

Conservation

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17th Century, Boston, Conservation, Dutch Art, Dutch Golden Age Painting, Museums, Reading, The Museum of Fine Arts

Conservator at the MFA working on a large Dutch Golden Age painting.

Learn about how institutions conserve valuable paintings! The MFA in Boston discusses the conservation of a large 17th century Dutch painting. Click here to learn more.

Amsterdam

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Amsterdam, Dutch Art, Dutch Golden Age, History, Rembrandt

Here is an interesting article recently posted in the New York Times that discusses the history of Amsterdam, as well as Rembrandt’s place in the city.

Domestic Interior Genre Paintings

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17th Century, Art, Dutch Art, Dutch Golden Age, Gerard ter Borch, Gerrit Dou, Interior Domestic Paintings, Jan Steen, Johannes Vermeer, Nicolaes Maes, Oieter de Hooch, Vermeer

Jan Steen, The Dissolute Household, 1661-64.

Nicolaes Maes, The Listening Housewife, 1655

Gerard ter Borch, The Suitor’s Visit, 1658.

Gerrit Dou, A Girl Chopping Onions, 1646.

Jan Steen, Girl Salting Oysters, 1658-60

Pieter de Hooch, The Mother, c. 1661-63.

Johannes Vermeer, The Music Lesson, 1662-64.

Johannes Vermeer, The Milkmaid, 1658-61.

Vermeer Paintings

Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1665-67.

The Milkmaid, 1658-61.

The Art of Painting, 1666-68.

View of Delft, 1660-61.

The Music Lesson, 1662-64.

 

 

Rembrandt Painting Stolen in 1990 Heist May Be Found.

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Isabella Stewart Gardener, Museums, Rembrandt

In a 1990 heist thieves stole many precious works of art from the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum, one of them being Rembrandt’s ‘Storm on the Sea of Galilee.’ According to this article the FBI may have tracked down the paintings.

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Visit the Met!

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Dutch Golden Age, Museums, Paintings, The Met

The Met has a great collection of Dutch Golden Age paintings right here in New York. Here is some info they provided on their collection and the Dutch Golden Age in general.

Online Reading

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Dutch Art, Dutch Golden Age, National Gallery of Art, Reading

Here is a link to a very informative text on Dutch painting in the Golden Age created by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

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Rembrandt Paintings

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Artists, group portraits, History Painting, painting, Portraiture, religion, Rembrandt, seascapes

The Night Watch, 1642.

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, 1633

The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, 1632

Artemis, 1634.

The Return of the Prodigal Son, 1669

The Jewish Bride, 1669.

Portrait of Maria Trip, 1639.