Quiz time! To celebrate #WorldEmojiDay we bring you the Rijksmuseum world puzzle. Combine the emoji’s and find the five paintings from our collection. Share your answers in the replies. Good luck! 📅 🤔
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Onze directeur Taco Dibbits en chef gaan voor de tweede aflevering van De Kok en de Directeur naar Slovenië. Dit spreekgestoelte van Felix Meritis is het uitgangspunt voor hun culinaire en culturele ontdekkingsreis. Morgen, 17 juli, om 19:20 uur op NPO2.
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Happy birthday Rembrandt! 🎂 We are celebrating Rembrandt’s 416th birthday with a special message from his famous friends. Have a good one old friend! 🎉
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Do you remember the first time you stood face to face with The Milkmaid? 😍
🖼️ The Milkmaid, Johannes Vermeer, c. 1660
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Valika Smeulders, Head of the Department of History: 'This portrait takes us back to the 16th century, showing us the presence of Africans in the Netherlands as part of the elite troops of emperor Charles V.’
🖼️ Portrait of an unknown man, Jan Jansz Mostaert, c. 1525 - c. 1530
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Did you know this is the earliest known painted portrait of an African man in European art? The portrait is part of ‘Our colonial past’, a year-long series Dutch newspaper the Volkskrant will launch today.
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The Little Street is back! After a short research Vermeer’s iconic work is back in our Gallery of Honour. 😍
🖼️ View of Houses in Delft, Known as ‘The Little Street’, Johannes Vermeer, c. 1658
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Erwin Olaf, Thinking about Robert, 2022. Aankoop, Rijksmuseum.
Robert Mapplethorpe, Self-Portrait, 1980. Schenking Hans van Manen en Henk van Dijk, 2019. © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission.
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We feliciteren choreograaf Hans van Manen van harte met zijn 90ste verjaardag! Dit portret is door Erwin Olaf van hem gemaakt ‘denkend’ aan Robert Mapplethorpe, voor beiden een inspiratie. Van Manen schonk in 2019 werken van Mapplethorpe, waaronder het beroemde zelfportret.
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Another look behind the scenes at our exhibition Modern Japanese Lacquer. Menno Fitski, Head of Asian Art, gives us a closer look at this stunning writing box ‘The Sound of Things’. 🇯🇵
🖼️ Writing box The Sound of Things, attributed to Tojima Kōfu, 1909.
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Hold your horses! 🐴 Here are the most beautiful horses from our collection. Which one is your favourite? And do you recognise these paintings? Let us know in the comments!
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Peeking through the museum windows. Full of wonder. 🪟👦👧
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Onze directeur Taco Dibbits en chef Joris Bijdendijk van Rijks reizen de wereld over! In de eerste aflevering van De Kok en de Directeur gaan ze naar Sicilië en staat dit werk van Willem Heda centraal. Morgen, 10 juli, om 19:20 uur op NPO2.
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This 23-metre landscape is just a small section of the original work. It comes from a moving panorama that was 1.5 kilometres long! The entire scene would be slowly rolled out in front of a live audience. 🎥
Now on show in our exhibition XXL Paper!
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If you stood face to face with captain Frans Banninck Cocq’s civic guards, what would you say to them? 👨🎨
🖼️ The Night Watch, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1642
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A big kiss for all our followers! 💏 Today, on #WorldKissingDay, we take a closer look at one of the most tender kisses from our collection: Joachim and Anna had long been childless, until one day Anna miraculously became pregnant with the Virgin Mary. 😘
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Now on show: Early Photographs of Japan. Antoon Bauduin’s photographs offer us a glimpse of Japan just as it was opening up its borders, revealing traditions in a changing landscape.
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’The works by Rembrandt made a particularly deep impression on me.'
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Today, we’ll take you behind the scenes of the Modern Japanese Lacquer exhibition. Menno Fitski, head of Asian Art, reveals one of the highlights, a lacquer box with an almost photographic depiction of a cormorant on a surf-swept rock. #lacquer #Japan
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De grote Nederlandse dichter, schrijver en columnist Remco Campert is op 92-jarige leeftijd overleden. In 1953 maakte Paul Huf deze foto van Campert, wiens oeuvre onder meer werd bekroond met de P.C. Hooftprijs.
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You seem to like our post about bums last year! 🍑 So, we thought it would be a great idea to bring you the buttocks of the Rijksmuseum Part II. Enjoy!
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Hmm, those hats look familiair… 🎩
🖼️ The Sampling Officials of the Amsterdam Drapers’ Guild, Known as ‘The Syndics’, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1662
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Opening today: XXL Paper, an exhibition about the biggest works on paper from our collection, such as this design for a stained glass window in the Dom in Utrecht. As you can see: installing this huge piece was quite the hassle! 🏗️
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Ter nagedachtenis aan de afschaffing van slavernij, kun je op vandaag vanaf 13:00 uur een gratis heri heri-maaltijd komen afhalen in de Rijksmuseumtuinen! #KetiKoti
Foto: Kerkhoff en Scherer, 1948
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Today is social media day! Did you know that we have a painting of the first ever iPhone in our collection? We’re not kidding! 🤳. Yes, even in 1670 people were addicted to our socials! 😜
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Maybe you didn’t know this, but today is International Mud Day, a day where we encourage our children to get outside and get dirty! Just like these pigs in a barnyard. Oink! Oink! 🐷🐷
🖼️ Pigs in a Barnyard, Guillaume Anne van der Brugghen, 1860 - 1891
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On show in the Rijksmuseum Gardens: Barbara Hepworth. No less than nine sculptures of the major British artist grace our gardens. Come in and have a look, our gardens are open for everyone. 💛🌞
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🖼️ Rembrandt’s Son Titus in a Monk’s Habit, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1660
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The silence is almost palpable. 🙏 We recognise Titus, Rembrandt’s son. He’s wearing a simple habit, characteristic of the Franciscans order. These monks served God by living in poverty and by withdrawing in nature, which explains the green and brown leaves in the background.
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Don’t be mean, be green! We 💚 green! Specially the green in our collection. Do you recognise these works of art? Let us know in the comments!
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The Rijksmuseum at sunset. That’s it, that’s the caption… 🌇
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Sometimes, when you don’t expect it, our paintings talk back to you. What story do you think the Syndics are telling? Or the Threatened Swan? 🗣️
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With lots of works from the Rijksmuseum on loan:
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1. The Cemetery at Baden-Baden, Pierre Louis Dubourcq, 1855
2. The Courtyard of a house in Cairo, Willem de Famars Testas, 1868 - 1881
3. Mountain landscape at Taormina, Sicily, Italy, Bramine Hubrecht, 1865 - 1913
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The Rijksmuseum and together offer us this summer plenty of travelling inspiration, even if your plane won’t go. ✈️ The Dordrecht exhibition Wanderlust: Dutch artists abroad 1800-1900 takes you on a journey through time and through the whole world. 🗺️
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’To my mind, painters are dancers, too – the way they move over the canvas isn’t so different to what I do.'
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Happy birthday Miffy! 🎂 Dick Bruna’s iconic bunny turns 67 today. As you can see, we love Miffy! 🐰
🖼️ The Milkmaid, Johannes Vermeer, c. 1660
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The Love Letter is back in the Gallery of Honour. In the run-up to the Johannes Vermeer exhibition, all our Vermeer paintings will undergo analysis using state-of-the-art techniques. Watch the mini documentary to learn more about our research!👨🎨
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It’s Father’s Day in the Netherlands! All father figures are being flooded with gifts. Mugs, socks, children’s drawings and of course a bottle of wine. What’s your favourite Father’s Day gift? 👨👨👧
🖼️ The Merry Family, Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1668 (edited)
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