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ALMA - Art Links to Artefacts
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is building a website that links pre-industrial objects (kitchen- and tablewares) to paintings and prints depicting these objects. ALMA (Art Links to Artefacts) will be launched on 10.10.2010 and is being realised with the support of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.
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The Milkmaid
The Milkmaid, by the celebrated Delft master Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), is one of the most admired paintings in the world. It was painted in 1657/1658 when the artist was approximately twenty-five years old and as yet little known, except to his fellow painters and a few art dealers and collectors in his native Delft.
The depicted artefacts in this painting are faithfully represented in realistic detail. The two-handled pot on the table is a good example of a certain type of Dutch redware, that was produced in the town of Oosterhout in North Brabant. In Delft earthenware and kitchen utensils from Oosterhout where sold on the market in the time of Vermeer, as archaeological research has shown.
The Milkmaid is part of the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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From New York with Love
Vermeer’s masterpiece The Milkmaid was recently exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum, as part of the events in New York City to celebrate the four-hundredth anniversary of Henry Hudson’s journey from Amsterdam to America in 1609. The Dutch Rijksmuseum gave this work in loan by exception.
Metropolitan Museum’s curator of European paintings Walter Liedtke invited curator of Pre-industrial Design Alexandra Gaba-van Dongen of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen to identify the depicted artefacts on The Milkmaid. This is her travellog about this journey. Vermeer depicted these objects in much realistic detail. Real examples of these objects were exhibited alongside The Milkmaid at the Metropolitan Museum.
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Camera: Alexandra Gaba-van Dongen
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