MMaxi Amsterdam urbain

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Bathsheba at her bath

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A young woman taking a bath, assisted by two servants. This is Bathsheba, a legendary beauty. Cornelis van Haarlem painted her in 1594. The story of the fair Bathsheba is told in the biblical Book of Samuel. One evening she was bathing in the garden....

Urban Amsterdam

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urban Amsterdam

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MMaxi Happy New Year

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Urban Amsterdam

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The Merry Fiddler

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Year 1623 Artist Gerard van Honthorst A man is leaning out of a window, laughing. In one hand he has a violin and a bow; in the other a glass of wine. He is pushing the curtain - a Persian carpet - to the side. The man is wearing a fantasy costume: an...

Christmas 2007

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Rembrandt Van Rijn

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The man portrayed here, Dr Ephraim Bueno (1599-1665), was a well-known Jewish physician and man of letters. Rembrandt painted this sketch in oils in 1647. It is a preliminary study for an etching of Dr Bueno. It is the only known sketch in oils for a...

Ferdinand Bol

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Title The Peace Negotiations between Claudius Civilis and Cerealis Year c. 1660-70 Standing on opposite sides of a demolished bridge are two warriors. They are negotiating across the divide. The man on the right is Cerealis, recognisable as a Roman from...