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Guggenheim Venice

Last week we were in Venice to visit the Guggenheim museum in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni. What a beautiful museum. That alone is worth the trip to this romantic and surreal city. The abstract and...

Aspergus from Coorte

This work by Coorte hangs in the Rijksmuseum and is a masterpiece due to its detail and color nuances. Still lifes were not highly regarded in painting because they were history paintings, but they...

The Haagse School

'The Hague School' is a name for a group of painters who worked in The Hague and surrounding areas between 1860 and 1890. The heyday of the Hague School lies roughly between 1870 and 1885. Well-kno...

Bouillabaisse van Manet - Lyklema Fine Art

Bouillabaisse from Manet

This realistic work is a masterpiece due to its composition, color scheme and details without the latter being fully developed. Manet is considered to have heralded the beginning of modern art with...

Tarte Tartin from Cezanne

According to Paul Cézanne, art is 'a harmony parallel to nature', not an imitation of nature. In his search for underlying structure and composition, the artist may not portray the objects and spac...

The Hare of Dürer

The Young Hare is a painting by the German artist Albrecht Dürer. Painted in 1502 in his studio. It is recognized as a masterpiece of observational art and has photographic accuracy. The fur was ca...

De Kabeljauw van Dijsselhof - Lyklema Fine Art

Cod by Dijsselhof

Art & Food Lyklema Fine Art is working on a fun and inspiring project: Art & Food. Well-known and lesser-known works of art are described and serve as inspiration for a dish. We get inspira...

Het restaureren van een schilderij - Lyklema Fine Art

Restoring a piece of Art

Restoring a painting is like mening clothes or dismantling a car that you then want to rebuild without changing the structure and base. Naturally, this involves studying the work and painting techn...