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The Mauritshuis (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmʌurɪtsˌɦœys], The Hague dialect: [ˈmɑːʁɪtsˌɦœːs]; lit. ' Maurice House ' ) is an art museum in The Hague , Netherlands . The museum houses the Royal Cabinet of Paintings which consists of 854 objects, mostly Dutch Golden Age paintings .
Frustrated at the lack of action, the director Van Gelder threatened to resign. Things now started moving. A firmer set of requirements was created. There was clarity concerning the collection development of the museum. The Gemeentemuseum would be a museum for art from 1800 onwards; earlier art would to be exhibited at the Mauritshuis. The cost ...
The Mauritshuis museum is named after its first owner, Prince Maurits, who hired Pieter Post to design his house. In 1668 Maurits (who was probably named after him) designed a garden for this house. Maurits Post (ca. 10 December 1645 – 6 June 1677) was a Dutch Golden Age architect.
The Prince William V Gallery is an art gallery on the Buitenhof in The Hague that currently shares an entrance with the Gevangenpoort museum. It is a recreation of the original gallery Galerij Prins Willem V, once founded there by William V, Prince of Orange in 1774.
She studied at Leiden University and the University of Amsterdam, and thereafter, held curatorial positions at the Frick Collection and the Mauritshuis. [4] Rulkens is noted for her extensive curatorial work at the Mauritshuis in The Hague, [5] [6] [7] where she curated several notable exhibitions.
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This is an incomplete list of artists in the collection of the Mauritshuis, with the number of artworks represented, and sorted by century of birth. The list also reflects artists whose works were formerly in the collection, or whose works were copied by other artists in the collection. For more information about the collection, see Mauritshuis ...
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