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Cheese by Van Dijck

Fruits, bread and three cheeses are laid out sort by kind on a table covered with precious damask cloths. The Haarlem painter Floris Claesz van Dijck is one of the pioneers of Dutch still life pain...

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Patato's; poor men's Caviar by van Gogh

The painting 'The Potato Eaters' by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is the most ambitious work from his Dutch period and his first real masterpiece. Before he starts the painting, he makes more than a...

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Cross Bridge by Fauvist Derain

Paintings by Matisse and Vlaminck and Derain were exhibited at the Salon D'automne in 1905 in the cage aux fauve room. This was the inspiration and namesake of a new movement within Expressionism: ...

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Magnolia ijs van Wilhelm List

It is spring and so the trees are in bloom, you see the first green shoots coming out of the branches and Magnolia trees are in bloom. This reminds us of a work by Wilhelm List. At the turn of the ...

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Guggenheim Venice

Last week we were in Venice to visit the Guggenheim museum in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni. What a beautiful museum. That alone is worth the trip to this romantic and surreal city. The abstract and...

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Aspergus from Coorte

This work by Coorte hangs in the Rijksmuseum and is a masterpiece due to its detail and color nuances. Still lifes were not highly regarded in painting because they were history paintings, but they...

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The Haagse School

'The Hague School' is a name for a group of painters who worked in The Hague and surrounding areas between 1860 and 1890. The heyday of the Hague School lies roughly between 1870 and 1885. Well-kno...

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Bouillabaisse from Manet

This realistic work is a masterpiece due to its composition, color scheme and details without the latter being fully developed. Manet is considered to have heralded the beginning of modern art with...

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