Rijksmuseum

There are two new Publications by BIS Publishers which you shouldn’t miss, if you want to get a refreshing and entertaining first insight into the world of design or art. Think Like an Artist, Don’t Act Like One by Koos de Wilt provides a fresh look at the fundamental questions…

The Nordic country is taking its "Rent a Finn" initiative onlineThe Rent a Finn campaign began in 2019, but had to go virtual for 2020 given travel restrictions.Business Finland Amid the daily deluge of depressing headlines that Covid-19 has brought people around the world, Finland wants to lighten things up.In…

Visitors wearing a face masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 admire statues in the Rome Capitoline Museums, including the second century A.D. Roman marble statue "Cupid and Psyche", at right, Tuesday, May 19, 2020. In Italy, museums were allowed to reopen this week for the first time since early…

BRUSSELS -- Museums are starting to reopen in some countries as governments ease coronavirus restrictions, but experts warn one in eight worldwide could face permanent closure due to the pandemic. Studies by UNESCO and the International Council of Museums show 90% of the planet's museums, some 85,000 institutions, have had…

Last week Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum released a hyper-resolution image of Rembrandt's The Night Watch. This hyper-resolution image allows you to explore Rembrandt's masterpiece in very close detail, zooming in and panning around the image just as if it was an interactive map. On its own the new hyper-resolution image viewer allows…

Photo: The Rijksmuseum (Public Domain) Perhaps Rembrandt van Rijn’s most famous painting, The Night Watch (1642), can now be seen in greater detail than ever before. You no longer have to worry about obeying the cautionary signs that line museum walkways and making sure to stand a respectable distance away…

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has posted an extraordinary image of Rembrandt's The Night Watch (1642) on its website. ".....Click again and you're propelled towards the outstretched hand of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq. Another click, and you're face-to-face with the leader of this group of not-so-merry-men. Once more, and you can…

At 9am on Tuesday the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam posted an image of Rembrandt's The Night Watch (1642) on its website. Nothing particularly unusual about that, you might think. After all, the museum frequently uploads pictures of its masterpieces from Dutch Golden Age. But there was something about this particular photo…

SmartNews Keeping you current More than 500 individual photographs make up the new image of the Dutch artist’s 17th-century masterpiece Although the painting is dubbed The Night Watch, research suggests that it was originally a daylight scene. (Courtesy of the Rijksmuseum) smithsonianmag.com May 14, 2020 The Amsterdam-based Rijksmuseum has released…

While museums are shut, the pastime is helping people appreciate old favourites anewBooks, arts and cultureProsperoIN RECENT WEEKS as many as 3.9bn people—half of the world’s population—have been living under lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. Many have sought to recreate what is lost. Unable to meet in person, friends…