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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 15h

Watch the second episode of our new YouTube series The Night Watch: Every Inch a Story as curator Pieter Roelofs reveals how even the smallest details hold the key to understanding Rembrandt’s revolutionary masterpiece.🔍

🎥 See the full story: https://youtu.be/FTyAnqtZPtA

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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 1d

Are you team carnations, team violets or team dahlias? 🌸🌼 🌺

🖼 Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os, Still Life with Flowers, 1820-1861, on loan from the City of Amsterdam (Bequest of A. van der Hoop)

👁️ Discover more: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20025946

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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 2d

Where do you think this portrait was painted? 🖌️

🖼️ Jan Adam Kruseman, Portrait of Alida Christina Assink, 1833, on loan from the City of Amsterdam

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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 3d

How do you like to celebrate? 🎉

In Fête champêtre, the 17th century comes to life as if you could step right into the garden: music fills the air, glasses raised, couples dancing and chatting.

👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200109343

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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 4d

What is your favourite animal? 🐶🐮🦁🐱

Our collection is full of animals in the most unexpected forms. These objects show just how much humans have always been inspired by our furry, feathered, and armoured friends.

👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/discover

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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 5d

On 3 October 1574, Leiden was freed from Spanish forces after months of hunger and disease. Just in time, the rebels broke the siege, bringing relief and food: herring and white bread. 🐟🍞

👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200110480

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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 6d

What do you think she’s thinking about? 💭

In Portrait of a Girl Dressed in Blue, Johannes Verspronck painted a child in her Sunday best: pearls, lace and a gown far beyond her years. Following the custom of the time, she’s shown as a miniature adult lady.

👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200108377

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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 7d

Which detail catches your eye? 🤍

From a cloud in the sky to the delicate layers of a dress, from a swan spreading its wings to the shimmer of an oyster shell, white pops up everywhere in our collection.

👁️ Discover more: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection

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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 8d

What’s the first detail that catches your eye in this scene? ⚓

👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/masterpieces-on-loan-rembrandt-and-willem-van-de-velde-in-the-gallery-of-honour

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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 9d

What do you like most about autumn? 🍁

Autumn is here… A perfect time to share some vibrant Japanese prints that capture the rich colours and fleeting beauty of the season. 🍂

👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/discover

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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 10d

What would you do if you won the lottery? 💵💰💸

In the 18th century, people allready loved the lottery. Here they’re fighting eachother to enter the lottery agency in the Kalverstraat, in Amsterdam.

👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200110487

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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 12d

Who would you write a love note to today? 💌

👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/comparer/De-Liefdesbrief--a53cb2f6-88a8-498c-539b-08dd452c455c

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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 13d

When the World Expo took over the Museum Square in 1895, they went all out, including placing a full-size ship right in front of the Rijksmuseum.

The ship was transformed into a floating restaurant where visitors could dine.🚢

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/discover/city-and-country/city

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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 14d

Which image catches your eye first? 🤍

In Japanese culture, cranes aren’t just beautiful, they’re powerful symbols of longevity, prosperity, happiness and wisdom. 🙏

👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/discover

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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 16d

What book do you think this girl is reading? 📚

Amsterdam painter Nicolaas van der Waay was fascinated by the appearance of girls of the Amsterdam citizen orphanage, and made numerous paintings of them, like this one.

👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20028509

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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 17d

Flowers or fruit, what makes you tick? 🍇🌼🍑🌷🫐

For Jan van Huysum it was definitely both. In the 18th century, he brought the popular genre of flower painting to great heights.

👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200109397

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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 18d

These are the syndics of the Amsterdam drapers’ guild, who inspected cloth for a year. Although six men are shown, only five were syndics. The man without a hat is their servant, Frans Hendricksz Bel, who lived in the Staalhof and didn’t pay for his portrait. 🎩

👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200107929

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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 19d

What can you make with just paper and scissors? ✂️

👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/story/elisabeth-rijbergh-paper-precision

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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 20d

The painter Pieter Frederik van Os surrounded himself with inspiration: nude model drawings, plaster casts, a sketch of a goat, and a horseshoe, clues to his focus on painting animals. A young pupil kneels by the grand 17th-century fireplace. ✨

👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200109455

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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 21d

Can you name five monumental buildings in Amsterdam? 🏰

The Amsterdam Town Hall on Dam Square symbolizes the tremendous growth and development the city experienced during the 17th century in the Netherlands.

👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/node/Amsterdam--563bd9ccdafc974641140a5932813f08

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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 22d

What kind of hat would you choose to wear? 👑👒

Today marks Prinsjesdag in the Netherlands, the King presents the government’s agenda for the year. It's also famously celebrated for the fashionable hats worn by Members of Parliament.

👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection

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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 23d

Which of these kachōga prints do you like most? 🤔🦚🪷

👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/node/Ohara-Koson--0e0c393b0a262a080532ae59346c8c35

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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 24d

Rembrandt’s largest painting, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Jan Deijman, was damaged in a fire. It showed eight surgeons watching him dissect the brain of criminal Joris Fonteijn.

👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/masterpieces-on-loan-rembrandt-and-willem-van-de-velde-in-the-gallery-of-honour

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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 25d

An ode to George Hendrik Breitner, who was born on this day in 1857 🎉 Which painting do you like best?

👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/dutch-masters/story/george-hendrik-breitner-10

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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 26d

Did Pieter de Hooch paint a boy or a girl?

It’s… a boy! In the 17th century both girls and boys wore dresses until they were about 7 years old. Textiles were very expensive, so this way siblings could wear the same clothes over and over again. 👦

👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200109391

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