Rembrandt’s Night Watch is the most famous and most important painting in the Netherlands. Learn more about this masterpiece and discover some things you may not have known. Originally the painting ...

Jan Steen’s paintings touch the viewer directly. The infectious humour and recognizable characters are enormously appealing. He painted with visible ease and his pictures exude a sense of energy.

The iconic Rijksmuseum in the heart of Amsterdam is one of the things you need to see when you visit the Netherlands. Rijksmuseum moves you through more than 8,000 works of Dutch art and history ...

Every six months the curators of the Asian Pavilion create new displays that tell a wide range of stories through the Asian art collection of the Rijksmuseum. This time, under the ever-watchful eyes ...

This sick child probably has the plague. An epidemic of this disease raged in Amsterdam in 1663. The child’s face is ashen. The painter, Gabriël Metsu, gave a lot of thought to the colours and the ...

Cupid looks at us mischievously while drawing an arrow from his quiver. This statue made Falconet, its sculptor, instantly famous. Madame de Pompadour, Louis XIV’s mistress, just had to have it.

Dit is de grootste en meest gedetailleerde foto ooit van een kunstwerk. Hij is 717 gigapixels, oftewel 717.000.000.000 pixels, groot. De afstand tussen twee pixels is 5 micrometer (0,005 millimeter), ...

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), ...

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 ...

Een dagje Amsterdam is pas compleet met een bezoek aan het Rijksmuseum. We nemen je met ruim 7000 werken mee door 800 jaar Nederlandse kunst en geschiedenis. Je ontdekt meer over wie wij zijn en ook ...

The Standard Bearer is seen as one of Rembrandt’s key works. He was an in-demand portrait painter in Amsterdam at the time, but he wanted to carve a new artistic path for himself – he probably used ...

The windmill occupies the centre of the composition. But for the painter Paul Gabriel it was really all about the sky and the water. Do you see the reflections? Want to see the works in real life?