7/26/2023 0 Comments Dutch portrait painter![]() The CNA was established with initial endowment funds from Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo and Susan and Matthew Weatherbie, given as part of a landmark 2017 gift that also included many of the paintings on view in the installation. The opening of the new galleries celebrates the launch of the Center for Netherlandish Art (CNA), an innovative center for scholarship housed at the MFA and the first resource of its kind in the US. Among the many highlights are Rembrandt’s moving Portrait of Aeltje Uylenburgh (1632), a Dutch doll’s house filled with nearly 200 miniature furnishings, and an early self-portrait by Van Dyck posing as Icarus, painted when the artist was just 19 years old. ![]() Organized thematically, the installation examines a variety of subjects: women artists and patrons the growth of a modern art market and the unexpected connection between still life paintings, the sugar trade, and slavery. Dutch art describes the history of visual arts in the Netherlands, after the United Provinces separated from Flanders. Nearly 100 paintings by the greatest masters-including Rembrandt van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens, Gerrit Dou, Frans Hals, and Anthony van Dyck-plus works on paper and decorative arts such as silver and Delft ceramics represent this rich visual culture. This suite of renovated galleries at the MFA employs up-to-date research to explore the nexus between art, commerce, and science in the Dutch Republic and Flanders. Anna Valdez draws and paints tables and floors crowded with art books (featuring David Hockney, Georges Braque, and Philip Pearlstein ), plants, cow skulls (clear nods to Georgia O’Keeffe), conch shells, and decorative vases evocative of ceramic traditions from around the world. Prosperous citizens commissioned and collected art in great volume and the artistic high points of this period continue to be deeply admired today. This unprecedented movement of goods, ideas, and people, both free and enslaved, gave rise to what some have called the first age of globalization. Queen Christina of Sweden engaged the Dutch portrait painter. Dutch merchants sailed from Amsterdam and other ports across seas and oceans, joining trade networks that stretched from Asia to the Americas and Africa. In order to reach this goal, Christina engaged various Dutch painters, scientists and. In the 17th century, global commerce fueled the economy of the Netherlands and sparked an artistic boom. Conservation and Collections Management. ![]()
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