Dutch Art

March 2023; GPT4 is introduced, and while many focus on what it can’t do, here’s a taste of what it […]

In his book Understanding Media: The Extension of Man (1964), Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase “The medium is the message”. […]

Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634) was born in Amsterdam, but lived in Kampen (a Duch city that was part of the by-then […]

Moreelse was born around 1603 in Zundert and died October 1634 during a plague epidemic in his hometown. Like Dirck […]

Even in our present day (where we are used to much more) most of us will still see the erotic […]

A bacchante is a follower of Bacchus, the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness, fertility, […]

Paulus Potter was born on November 25th, 1625 in the Dutch town of Enkhuizen. He learned to paint from his […]

Van Baburen was probably born in the Dutch city of Wijk bij Duurstede and was just seventeen when he travelled […]

The first question that came to my mind when I saw this painting was “Why is a baker blowing a […]

Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun, it shines everywhere. —William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (3.1.39-40) It is […]