The gleaming carp, the slippery eel, and the shiny glaze of the earthenware bowl: they seem almost tangible. With her still lifes, Peeters seamlessly tapped into the era’s fascination with plants, ...
A storm is brewing. The man at the left has clearly already had too much to drink yet is ordering more. The dangerous dagger of the man in blue signals trouble. The couple at the right makes love half ...
A young man is singing and playing the lute on an open veranda. Where the woman’s thoughts have wandered is a mystery. The music and the theme of the paramours Pyramus and Thisbe in the painting in ...
RIJKS® has dining down to an art RIJKS® was awarded a Michelin star in 2016, climbed from 16.5 to 17 points in the 2019 Gault & Millau guide and in the same year earned a spot in the brand-new ranking ...
The Cuypers Library is the largest and oldest art historical library in the Netherlands. Visitors, students and art historians alike are welcome to use the library to delve deeper into the Rijksmuseum ...
De godin Athena (bij de Romeinen Minerva) werd geboren uit het hoofd van Zeus, haar vader. Ze was de godin van de beheerst gevoerde oorlog, en daarnaast van de wijsheid en de kunst. Zij was ...
This is the largest and most detailed photo ever taken of a work of art. It is 717 gigapixels, or 717,000,000,000 pixels, in size. The distance between two pixels is 5 micrometres (0.005 millimetre), ...
Met 8.000 objecten vertellen we het verhaal van 800 jaar Nederlandse kunst en geschiedenis. We nemen je mee van de Middeleeuwen tot aan Mondriaan. Dit doen we natuurlijk in het historische ...