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The Netherlands is a country of culture and proudly houses a varied and vast collection of art. International trade made this small nation rich and in the 17th century -the Dutch Golden Age- painting flourished. The…
You’ve got the talent and want to become a professional artist. But how do you get there? The first thing to remember is that professional art is about more than creating beautiful objects alone. You need to market…
The crafts which involve a touch of creation, or an evolution of a new kind of auditory, visual or performed artifacts- that expresses the emotion or skill is an art. The oldest form of art came into being from the…
The passing of time and the inevitability of death have always featured large for the Dutch artist [Mirjam Verschoor](/en/tribecalledtrash-mirjam-verschoor/). In previous generations her family suffered tragic loss,…
A new year, and a wealth of new exhibitions in Europe - if we are lucky we will even be able to visit them. If not, many museums offer rich programmes of talks, events and exhibition material on line. Not the real…
Although he tried to organise this during his lifetime, Frank Walter (1926-2009) never did see a complete exhibition of his work. The artist from Antigua, who travelled to Europe in the Fifties and lived in Britain…
Contemporary Dutch master Tjalf Sparnaay (1954) is leader of the Megarealist art movement. Enlarging everyday objects, his giant fried eggs gained worldwide fame. His earlier work ‘Poesha’ is now on the market. This…
This Friday, February 14, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam will open its new exhibition: “Caravaggio-Bernini. Baroque in Rome”. The exhibition shows more than seventy works by pioneers of Italian baroque art, including…
The life of Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669). Rembrandt is considered to be one of the greatest European painters and etchers, as well as the most famous Dutch master of the 17th century. During this Golden Age…
Mauritshuis The [Mauritshuis](http://www.mauritshuis.nl/en/) is home to the Royal Picture Gallery and is an autonomous national museum in The Hague with mainly paintings from the Golden Age. There are also some top…
The Golden Age has given the Netherlands a lot, many of the 10 famous Dutch Painters also date from this time. During this time, craft, trade but also art flourished in the Netherlands. Important Dutch artists are…