Dutch Art

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Sunflowers (original title, in French: Tournesols) is the name of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The first series, executed in Paris in 1887, depicts the flowers lying on the ground, while the second set, executed a year later in Arles, shows a bouquet of sunflowers in a vase. (wikipedia)

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Gezicht op het IJ met 's Lands Zeemagazijn te Amsterdam, van Reinier Nooms uit 1664.


Het ’s Lands Zeemagazijn en omgeving te Amsterdam, gezien vanaf de buitenkant. Abraham Storck, 1675


Jan ten Compe, Gezicht op het IJ, 1752, olieverf op paneel, 53 x 71 cm., Amsterdam, Amsterdam Museum

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Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, Interior of Saint Bavo, Haarlem, 1631, oil on panel, 82.9 x 110.5 cm (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
Speakers: Dr. Christopher D. M. Atkins, Agnes and Jack Mulroney Associate Curator of European Painting and Sculpture, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Dr. Steven Zucker

Pieter Jansz. Saenredam (9 June 1597 - buried 31 May 1665) was a painter of the Dutch Golden Age, known for his distinctive paintings of whitewashed church interiors such as Interior of St Bavo's Church in Haarlem and Interior of the Sint-Odulphuskerk in Assendelft.

Biography
One of the great Old Masters known for his distinctive paintings of whitewashed church interiors, Pieter Jansz Saenredam edges out his younger contemporary Emanuel de Witte (1615-1692) as the greatest architectural painter during the Golden Age of Dutch Baroque Painting (c.1600-80). Active mainly in the city of Haarlem, he was the first artist to produce architecturally faithful depictions of buildings, rather than the more imaginative inventions championed by Mannerism, which had been the dominant style of the late 16th century. In this sense he was one of the purest of Dutch Realist artists, whose down-to-earth Protestant art contrasted with the more dramatic and flamboyant Catholic Counter-Reformation Art (1560-1700). His particular style of Dutch Realism with its focus on architectural truthfulness distinguishes him from de Witte, whose church interiors were sometimes augmented (effectively but fancifully) with elements from other buildings. A master of drawing, Saenredam relied heavily on preparatory sketching to achieve the exactitude of perspective and proportion he sought, and it was this professional approach that made him so influential in Baroque Painting throughout the Low Countries. In his particular brand of Christian art, he achieved what Rembrandt (1606-1669), Jan Vermeer (1632-1675) and Harmen van Steenwyck (1612-56) did for portraiture, genre painting and vanitas still lifes, respectively. Among his best known oil paintings are a matching pair both titled "Interior of the Buurkerk, Utrecht" (1644). One is displayed in the National Gallery, London; the other is part of the collection of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.

Education and Training
Pieter Jansz Saenredam acquired the rudiments of sketching and painting from his father, an engraver, before being apprenticed at the age of 15 to Frans Pietersz de Grebber (1573-1649), the landscape and portrait specialist. Sadly, although exceptionally talented as an artist, Saenredam suffered both from his short stature and a spinal deformity (he was a dwarf and hunchbacked). In 1622, he joined the Guild of St Luke in Haarlem, and in 1626 produced his first serious example of Biblical art, entitled: "Christ Expelling the Merchants from the Temple".

Career as a Painter
Despite this early experimentation with religious art and his occasional contributions to the school of Dutch Realist genre painting, Saenredam is known chiefly for his paintings of churches. And his knowledge of Baroque architecture gleaned through his friendship with Dutch Baroque architects like Jacob van Campen (1596-1657), Salomon de Bray (1597-1664) and Pieter Post (1608-69), may explain the austerity and severe lines of these works. His fifty-six known paintings are of a mathematical precision, and were usually preceded by elaborate sketches and very accurate drawings, with the perspective projection fully worked out. About 140 of these are known at the present time. (visual-arts-cork)

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The Haarlemmermeer in 1656 - by Jan van Goyen.


Battle of Haarlemmermeer circa 1621 by Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom, oil on canvas. Rijksmuseum.

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The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands is a huge world-famous collection presented in 80 galleries, exhibiting 8,000 objects that tell the story of 800 years of Dutch art and history. This collection focuses primarily on Dutch paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries, rather than trying to present a complete sample of the entire world of art. The museum has a lot to show, thanks especially to the extreme genius of great native painters, Frans Hals, Vermeer, van Ruisdael, Jan Steen, and most-famously, Rembrandt. Don’t miss out on the absolute highlights, like Vermeer’s Milkmaid, Van Gogh’s Self-portrait and a gorgeous collection of Delft Blue pottery ranging from tea sets to vases.

The total archive includes 1 million objects from the years 1200–2000, with more than 2,000 paintings from the Dutch Golden Age. Some 30 galleries are dedicated to the glory of the Golden Age, when the young mercantile republic led the world in trade, science, shipping and the arts. Many objects from Dutch history tell the story with Paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, silver, porcelain, delftware, furniture, jewellery, costumes and more. There are also dozens of rooms with medieval arts and later decorative pieces of the 19th century, 17th century miniature house models, along with a sampling of minor Italian Renaissance paintings.

The building itself is a major work of art, designed in neo-Gothic and Renaissance styles by Pierre Cuypers, who also designed the similar-looking Central Train Station, both completed in the 1880s. The red terra-cotta façade is adorned with many statues, decorative stripes, reliefs and ceramic plaques, using a mix of medieval and 19th century styles.

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Deze film ‘De Passie van Piet Leonard’ bevat het levensverhaal van een tekenaar, Piet Leonard van Langeraad, die 40 jaar bij de bekende Haagse firma H.Pander & Zn. heeft gewerkt als tekenaar van meubels, stijl-interieurs en interieurdecoraties. De bijzonderheid is dat Piet Leonard 100% doof geboren was, in 1899 een bijna noodlottige handicap. Maar omdat hij als kind over een groot talent bleek te beschikken kreeg hij een unieke kans zich te bekwamen als tekenaar. Pander bood hem daarna de kans zich professioneel te ontwikkelen, en die kans greep de jongen gepassioneerd aan.
Van deze Piet Leonard werden in 2012 onverwacht 179 nagelaten tekeningen ontdekt, daterend uit de periode 1906 – 1966. Deze erfenis vormt de basis van de film, die daarmee een curieus ‘levensverhaal in tekeningen’ is geworden, met als extra bijzonderheid dat hij a priori gemaakt was voor een doof publiek (geen gesproken tekst maar ondertitels ). Bovendien geven Piet Leonards tekeningen een opvallend kijkje in de Pander-productie uit, met name, de periode 1918 – 1933, tijdens welke het bedrijf zich bij uitstek richtte op de “Haagsche Stijl”, de stijlvariant die geïnspireerd was door Frank Lloyd Wright en Hendrik Berlage en dominant werd in veel chique interieurs van de Hofstad... (Men sprak hier wel van een ‘Nederlandse Art Deco’. Grote namen waren o.a. Henk Wouda, Cor Alons en Jan Wils).

Kees van Langeraad (regisseur)

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Bakker Arent Oostwaard en zijn vrouw Catharina Keizerswaard met allerlei verschillende soorten vers gebakken brood (broodjes, krakelingen, kadetten, duivekater) voor de bakkerij, 1658, Jan Steen, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.

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Goudschat van Wieuwerd
Nederland middeleeuwen
Tijdens de afgraving in 1866 van een terp nabij Wiewerd in het Friese Westergo, vond een arbeider de spreekwoordelijke pot met goud: 39 gouden voorwerpen en een wit schijfje. De goudschat bestaat bijna geheel uit sieraden, waaronder drie ringen, niervormige oorhangers en de voetplaat van een grote gouden broche (fibula), versierd met filigraandraadjes. De vele hangers bevatten munten die tot sieraad zijn omgewerkt. Ze zijn afkomstig uit het Oost-Romeinse Rijk, onder andere van de zesde-eeuwse keizer Justinianus uit Ravenna. De munten wijzen uit dat de goudschat rond 640 in de terp werd begraven.

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Vincent and his famous vibrance .One my my favourites

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Hobbe Smith - De Houthaven van Amsterdam (1913)