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The Maritime Museum (Dutch: Het Scheepvaartmuseum, pronounced [ət ˈsxeːpfaːrtmyˌzeːjʏm]) is a maritime museum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The museum had 419,060 visitors in 2012. [ 5 ] It ranked as 11th most visited museum in the Netherlands in 2013. [ 6 ]
The blockbuster exhibition of paintings by Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer closed its doors for the final time on Sunday, with the art and history national museum of the Netherlands hailing the show ...
The Museum of Bags and Purses (Dutch: Tassenmuseum Amsterdam), was a museum devoted to the history of bags, purses, and their related accessories. Located in Amsterdam's historic central canal belt, [2] the museum's collection included over 5,000 items dating back to the sixteenth-century. Museum of Bags and Purses, garden.
The painting depicts the three women, two of them in full-length, sitting at a table covered with oriental cloth. The women are wearing dresses with puff sleeves and lace, and a flat collar. They all wear pearl necklaces, bracelets and earrings. The woman in the middle wears a widow's hood. There is an inkstand and coins on the table.
Although the black of her dress is bold, it is also deep, recessive and mysterious. She is surrounded by a rich brown which is at once luminous and dark enough to provide contrast to the skin tones. Most disconcerting is the whiteness of the skin, an overt contrivance of "aristocratic pallor"; by contrast her red ear is a jarring reminder of ...
The Oudeschans and the parallel Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat, were located in the heart of the old Jodenbuurt (Jewish neighborhood) of Amsterdam. In 1927 the municipality built a block of 72 homes in the style of the late Amsterdam School in collaboration with the Bouwfonds Handwerkers Vriendenkring. The block was designed by Jan Hendrik Mulder Jr ...
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