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Japanese printmaking: Ukiyo-e

Japanese art has been influenced by Buddhism from Korea and the Chinese. The drawing techniques are often Chinese with typical Chinese landscapes. Only later did they focus on the well-known Japane...

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Scallops by Botticelli

Botticelli created this painting, the Birth of Venus, in 1485 and it hangs in the Uffizi in Florence, commissioned by Lorenzo de' Medici. The painting is made with tempera on canvas and measures 17...

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Rysselberghe & Sluijters

This morning we were in Singer Laren for two beautiful exhibitions. One around Theo van Rysselberghe and one around Jan Sluijters and the modernists. The first is about the painter of the sun and a...

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Zeebrasem & Dorade van Rysselberghe

This morning we attended the beautiful exhibition of Theo van Rysselberghe in the Singer Museum where we got inspiration from a specific painting for our evening meal. Sea bream and sea bream from ...

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Colorist Ben Viegers

Ben Viegers (The Hague 1886-Nunspeet 1947) lived in Nunspeet from 1938 until his death. He lives there on De Laan with his wife as a pleinairist and bon vivant. Without frills, pretensions, unsophi...

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Ceviche of pike-perch by Van 't Hoff

If you drive through the Alps by car or train towards Italy, you will pass the most beautiful areas around Lake Maggiore, the Piedmont and, for example, Como. Adriaan van 't Hoff has depicted that ...

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Summer fruit from Acrimboldo

Guiseppe Acrimboldo, Summer (1550)This time the Art & Food blog is about an old work that almost everyone knows and still inspires many. Arcimboldo (1527-1593) owes his contemporary fame to the...

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De 15 grootste Vlaamse Kunstenaars

This blog focuses on the 15 largest Flemish artists in the period 1820-1950, arranged according to their position within Artprice. In other words, what do they yield and how marketable are their wo...

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