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The Rijksmuseum Research Library is the largest and oldest public art history research library in the Netherlands. [1] The library is part of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The profile of the library collection parallels that of the museum. [2] The online catalogue [3] contains over 400,000 monographs, 3,400 periodicals and 90,000 art sales ...
The highlights of the collection are the oldest works such as former altarpieces from Amsterdam churches, but also large works for other former Amsterdam institutions by Pieter Aertsen, Rembrandt, Nicolaes Maes, and Bartholomeus van der Helst. Most of the artists in the collection were born in the 16th and 17th centuries.
The Rijksmuseum (Dutch: [ˈrɛiksmyˌzeːjʏm] ⓘ) is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam. [6] [7] The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough of Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and the Concertgebouw.
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120 Paintings from the Rijksmuseum is a selection of paintings that were included in a booklet of illustrations in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam giftshop for visitors during the years 1950–1990. It was meant as an illustrated companion guide to the catalog of the paintings on show , which included information about the +/-1,200 paintings on show.
The Rijksmuseum was the first museum worldwide to ban copyrights and open the collection with a radical approach. The open-content museum dates to 2011, when the Rijksmuseum made the first of 208,000 images available for download at no cost after curators found more than 10,000 low-quality scans of one of its Vermeers online. [5]
It is part of the collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, executed in oil paint on panel. It depicts the art collector Jan Gildemeester Jansz (or Jan Jansz. Gildemeester) in the midst of his large collection of paintings, showing them to friends. The painting was acquired by the Rijksmuseum in 1964 [1] after being part of a French private ...
Amsterdam Collection online The Windmill of Wijk bij Duurstede (c. 1670) is an oil -on-canvas painting by the Dutch painter Jacob van Ruisdael . It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is now in the collection of the Amsterdam Museum , on loan to the Rijksmuseum .