De Mexicaanse Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is zonder twijfel een van de bekendste en meest geliefde kunstenaars ter wereld. Door haar indrukwekkende kunstwerken, opvallende verschijning, roerige leven en bijzondere levensstijl is zij een wereldwijd icoon geworden.

Frida Kahlo heeft een onuitwisbare indruk achtergelaten met haar gedurfde gevoel voor schoonheid en haar idealen over gelijkheid voor iedereen. Hoewel haar leven grotendeels bepaald werd door tegenslag, wist ze haar pijn en emotionele st...

Holocaust, erfgoed en herinnering

Archeologen, historici, kunsthistorici en erfgoedspecialisten bestuderen in dit boek de archeologie van Sobibor.

Tussen 2000 en 2017 voerden archeologen meerdere onderzoek-campagnes uit op het terrein van het voormalig vernietigingskamp Sobibor. De directe aanleiding voor dit onderzoek waren de plannen voor de bouw van een nieuw museum en de herinrichting van het terrein als herinneringsplek. Sobibor geldt als het eerste vernietigingskamp waarvan een substant...

Go to the theatre with Rembrandt and discover how painters and theatre-makers in seventeenth-century Amsterdam were inspired by each other.

During Rembrandt’s lifetime, theatre played an increasingly important role in the everyday lives of Amsterdam’s citizens. Rembrandt, too, saw theatre and was inspired by it. He used various directing techniques to create images that tell fascinating and convincing stories: from facial expressions and hand gestures to costumes and accessories. He also ...

Nu verschenen bij Wbooks: The Golden Age Book. Dit boek heeft dezelfde inhoud als The Great Golden Age (uitverkocht), alleen is dit een midprize editie (€ 29,95).

ISBN: 9789462581562

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Het Grote Gouden Eeuw Boek is het nieuwe standaardwerk over de Hollandse schilderkunst in de 17e eeuw. Jeroen Giltaij, oud-hoofdconservator Oude Schilderkunst van het Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, bracht 371 schilderijen uit de collecties van Nederlandse musea b...

They secretly documented life in Amsterdam during the last year of the war: the group of photographers who came to be known as The Underground Camera. Guided by German – Jewish filmmaker Fritz Kahlenberg and resistance leader Tonny van Renterghem, they captured images of both the Nazi occupiers and the Dutch resistance groups. They extensively photographed the grueling conditions of the Hunger Winter, and smuggled their illegally taken photos to London to convince the Dutch government-in-ex...

The Brueghels are the most famous family in the history of Western art. They were innovators and entrepreneurs who were active from around 1550 to 1700. Their roots in Brabant played a major role in their art, which focuses on the people, land, and culture of this region.

For almost two centuries, the Brueghels produced hundreds of paintings, drawings, and prints that captivate and entertain viewers. These works are admired for their witty compositions, universal messages, and exceptional cra...

Face to face. The people behind mummy portraits (Ben van den Bercken, Olaf Kaper, eds) accompanies the first exhibition on Ancient Egyptian mummy portraits in the Netherlands.

Who were the people portrayed? How were they depicted and why? Who were they seen by? And: how do we think about self-presentation and being remembered in an age of selfies and fluid identities? In this lushly illustrated book, readers not only get to know the people portrayed, but also the makers, relatives, collectors...

No one was supposed to find Sobibor ever again. In 1943, when the Nazis shut down the death camp, they destroyed the gas chambers. To cover up pits where they buried their victims’ ashes, they planted trees.

But their attempt to totally erase the camp failed. The marshy ground in an Eastern Polish river valley still held the victims’ last possessions, rusty and buried beneath the soil. From 2007 on, archaeologists dug up tens of thousands of objects on the former camp terrain. Traces in ...