A Monument Rises From the Sand: Louvre Abu Dhabi - "The tale of the world’s newest cultural monument is tied to one of its oldest, though their evolutions bear little resemblance." art in museums stimulates brain much more than reprints, study finds - "Scientists in Netherlands using eye-...
The Kunstmuseum Den Haag in The Hague is a top modern art museum in the Netherlands with the largest collection of Piet Mondrian paintings in the world. The Kunstmuseum Den Haag is a modern art museum in The Hague, South Holland, exhibiting mostly early 20th-century art. It ...
Mauritshuis (The Hague, Netherlands) Mauritshuis is located in The Hague, the political and historical hub of the Netherlands. An impressive collection of Flemish and Dutch paintings from the genre's glory years from the seventeenth century is on display at this small, upscale establishment. Two ...
Carel Fabritius is one of the renowned artists who painted the famous “The Goldfinch.” It’s a painting of a life-size chained goldfinch and is now in the collection of Mauritshuis in The Hague, Netherlands. Being renowned in art, this painting looks visually appealing and has a modern a...
Provides information about small art museums in Europe. Kettle's Yard museum in Cambridge, England; Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, Netherlands; Musee Nissim De Camondo in Paris, France; Fondation Maeght St. Paul de Vence on the French Riviera.PerlJedEBSCO_AspTravel Holiday...
Several severe incidents in Dutch museums in the late 1980s and early 1990s were a cause for great concern. The incidents were explained by the modest quality of security in Dutch museums in relation to the increasing crime-rate in Dutch society. However, it was impossible to take appropriate...
her wonderful artistic eye has sought out the unusual, the commonplace and the universal. Born in The Hague, The Netherlands, in 1942, van Manen currently lives in Amsterdam. Her explorations of the former Soviet Union and China were published in the booksA Hundred Summers, A Hundred Winters(...
Born in the Netherlands in 1853, Van Gogh led a simple life in a small town until the age of 16. He then left school and joined a firm of art dealers in the large city of The Hague. He eventually realized that dealing with others' artwork was not his profession, his true love was...
Other European museums include: Netherlands—Rijksmuseum(Amsterdam), the Mauritshuis (The Hague), and the Groninger Museum of Art (Groningen); Portugal—National Museum (Lisbon); Scandinavia—Royal Academy of Arts and National Museum (both: Copenhagen) and the National Museum and State Historical Mu...
Other museums of fine art in the Netherlands include: the Rijksmuseum, the Stedelijk and the Van Gogh Museum (all in Amsterdam), the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam), and the Mauritshuis (The Hague).APPRECIATING PAINTING Before visiting the Kroller-Muller museum, see: Art Evaluation: ...