Tag: Rotterdam

Erasmus of Rotterdam

(1466–1536) Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus Works: • Against War (English) • Colloquies, Volume I (English) • Dialoge or communication of two persons (English) • Education of Children (English) • Encomium artis medicae (Latin) • In Praise of Folly (English) • Merry Dialogue Declaringe the Properties of Shrowde Shrews…

Haesje van Cleyburg

Haesje Jacobsdr van Cleyburg Haesje van Cleyburg in Art: Rembrandt (1606-1669) Haesje Jacobsdr van Cleyburg 1634 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam    

The Tower of Babel (c.1568)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Tower of Babel c.1568 Oil on panel, 59.9 x 74.6 cm Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam In this famous painting Bruegel depicts the biblical story of man’s hubris and their desire to build a…

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam)

Opened: 1849 Address: Museumpark 18-20, 3015 CX Rotterdam, Netherlands Website: https://www.boijmans.nl/en Collection: • Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569): The Tower of Babel (c.1568) • Manet, Édouard (1832-1883): Nature morte aux pivoines blanches et autres fleurs (c.1880) • Monet, Claude (1840-1926): Printemps à Vétheuil…

Rotterdam (Netherlands)

Museums: • Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen: Museumpark 18, 3015 CX Rotterdam Rotterdam in Art: Turner, Joseph (1775-1851) Rotterdam Ferry-Boat 1833 National Gallery of Art, Washington     Births: • Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536) See also: • Cities | Netherlands

Joseph Mallord William Turner

(1775–1851) The artist’s works: The Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli c.1794–1797 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Self-Portrait c.1799 Tate Britain, London Copy of Poussin’s Landscape 1799 Tate Britain, London Christ Crowned with Thorns, after Titian 1802 Tate Britain, London Mars and Venus, after Guercino…