Prints, Drawings and Portraits · Exhibitions The Night by Heinrich Aldegrever This woman wants to seduce us, the viewers. Jef Schaeps • 15-02-2010
Prints, Drawings and Portraits · Exhibitions Minerva by Hendrick Goltzius The artist has created his goddess solely with a brush, sometimes suggesting forms and outlines with the tip of the brush, sometimes applying heavy, graphic washings. Jef Schaeps • 27-11-2009
Prints, Drawings and Portraits Pompa Introitus by Peter Paul Rubens, Caspar Gevartius and Theodoor van Thulden Rubens was contracted to design a series of triumphal arches that were to adorn the city of Antwerp in May 1635. Van Thulden was chosen to engrave the designs for a publication. Jef Schaeps • 05-11-2009
Prints, Drawings and Portraits · Asian Special Collections The bull, the tiger and the palm-wine tapper: a Balinese fable depicted At the end of the fable the tiger is defeated by this palmwine-tapper, who is inspired by the gods. Guest author • 02-07-2009
Prints, Drawings and Portraits 9 april 1609: True picture of the gentlemen ambassadors and deputies to the Truce After forty years the Republic of the United Provinces agreed with the Royal Provinces (Northern and Southern Netherlands, respectively) to lay down arms for a period of twelve years. Anton van der Lem • 09-04-2009
Prints, Drawings and Portraits A dialogue between two birds Hans Waanders has had a lifelong fascination for the kingfisher and made the little bird into the epicentre of his artistic activities. Jef Schaeps • 25-02-2009
Prints, Drawings and Portraits · Manuscripts, Archives and Letters Two men of science ‘meet’ The scholar Josephus Justus Scaliger was greatly admired for his astronomical knowledge. In 1598 the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe sent him a manuscript with his own portrait and ample praise. Kasper van Ommen • 20-01-2009
