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Art-historical research into the painters, workshops and ideas behind the works we love.

Atelierpraktijk, serialiteit en auteurschap van vader Willem Claesz Heda (1594-1680) op zoon Gerret Willemsz Heda (1625-1649)

Golden Age, 17th century · 2026

Atelierpraktijk, serialiteit en auteurschap van vader Willem Claesz Heda (1594-1680) op zoon Gerret Willemsz Heda (1625-1649)

How the Heda workshop worked, and how authorship passed from father to son in the monochrome still life.

Written in Dutch

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Rembrandt in dialoog met de internationale traditie van het historiestuk

15th–17th century · 2026

Rembrandt in dialoog met de internationale traditie van het historiestuk

Rembrandt's history paintings set against the wider European tradition he drew from.

Written in Dutch

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Catalogus Passieserie Rembrandt van Rijn

15th–17th century · 2026

Catalogus Passieserie Rembrandt van Rijn

A catalogue of Rembrandt's Passion series.

Written in Dutch

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Recent Perspectives and Continuing Debates on Defining Realism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art

17th & 20th century · 2026

Recent Perspectives and Continuing Debates on Defining Realism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art

An overview of how scholars have defined — and debated — realism in Dutch Golden Age painting.

Written in English

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Paulus Potters “Orpheus en de dieren” (1650) als weerspiegeling van de ‘ideale’ Republiek

17th century · 2025

Paulus Potters “Orpheus en de dieren” (1650) als weerspiegeling van de ‘ideale’ Republiek

Paulus Potter's Orpheus and the Animals read as a mirror of the 'ideal' Dutch Republic.

Written in Dutch

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The Understanding of the Other in Orientalist and Primitivist Art

18th–19th century · 2021

The Understanding of the Other in Orientalist and Primitivist Art

How Orientalist and Primitivist art imagined and represented 'the other'.

Written in English

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