maandag 12 januari 2009

Frankrijk (1350-1400)

Frankrijk (1350-1400)

Jan II en Karel V alsmede de Black Prince

zondag 11 januari 2009

bonnefantenmuseum maastricht

bonnefantenmuseum maastricht

9-01-09 visit to Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht Palazzo exhibition

Furniture - Victoria and Albert Museum

Furniture - Victoria and Albert Museum

visit to the V&A discovered the John Jones collection of 18th century
furniture donnated in 1882 then worth 250.000 sterl. Jones made his
fortune as a regimental tailor during the Crimean war

Darwin - Big idea big exhibition

Darwin - Big idea big exhibition

amazing exhibition visited the 8th of jan 2009 the secret Darwin was
kept for 20 years

Multatuli Museum

Multatuli Museum

6-1-09 visit to the Multatuli Museum in the Korsjespoortsteeg
where Eduard Douwes Dekker was born rather small but an
amazing book collection Max havelaar was translated in 39 languages
and most of them are in the museum.

Discovered that Multatuli was cremated in Germany 1887 as the first
Dutchman to be cremated

William Hogarth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

William Hogarth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

7-1-09 discovered in The Dulwich Gallery a portrait by William Hogarth
signed the Anglus ""the English" in protest against all foreign painters
mainly Dutch and Flemish who took away the portrait business in the UK

Home Page - Dulwich Picture Gallery

Home Page - Dulwich Picture Gallery

the 7th of january 2009 visited the Dulwich gallery in the Dulwich village

started as the Ernest Cook Trust Ernest grandson of Thomas Cook who founded
the travel agency,donated his collection on his death in 1955 to the NAtional Arts
Collection Fund the largest single donnation ever given throughout England

Two artdealers Noel Desenfans and Francis Bourgeois left their collections to the
Gallery which became the first public art gallery in england built by John Soane