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New on RKD Research: requesting library material in RKD library

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This allows you to already indicate which titles you want to study before your visit.
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Nieuw online uitleensysteem op RKD Research

State of affairs: RKD Research

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This article contains the most recent developments regarding RKD Research.
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The RKD receives sketchbooks from sculptor Fred Carasso

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De familie heeft twee van zijn schetsboeken aan het RKD geschonken.
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Fred Carasso's familie schenkt schetsboeken aan het RKD

Chris Stolwijk leaves the RKD

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After more than 12.5 years at RKD as General Director, Chris van Stolwijk is changing course.
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RKD - Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis

Who is the Girl with bird painted by Jan Mankes?

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Until recently, the identity of the girl in the painting was unknown, until a granddaughter contacted the RKD.
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Jan Mankes, Meisje met lijster, 1912, 42 x 31 cm, verblijfplaats onbekend, foto Christie’s

Exhibitions in The Hague celebrating 80 years of freedom

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In 2025, we will commemorate the liberation of the Netherlands eighty years ago.

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Tentoonstelling Herdenkingsmonumenten: Bevrijding in beeld

RKD Research enriched with medieval miniatures

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More than 27,000 descriptions have recently been added.
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Gregoriusmis (miniatuur) en Zielen in het vagevuur (gehistorieerde initiaal). Getijdenboek, vermoedelijk gemaakt voor iemand uit de familie van Lochorst, met geschilderde voorstellingen en margeversieringen door de Meester van Katherina van Kleef. Utrecht, ca. 1460 (Den Haag, Huis van het boek, Ms. MMW 10 F 50, ff. 147v-148r)

Olphaert den Otter donates study material to the RKD

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The donation includes material on the monumental artwork ‘Een onvergetelijke dag’.
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Olphaert den Otter, studie voor de tondo van de kristallen bol, 2025, collectie RKD

Digitisation of Rubens’ oeuvre catalogue nears completion

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The project will result in the world's largest digital oeuvre catalogue on a single artist.
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Peter Paul Rubens, Annunciatie, Rubenshuis, Antwerpen

Samuel van Hoogstraten gets online catalogue raisonné

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The RKD is working with the Rembrandthuis Museum on an online catalog raisonné.
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Samuel van Hoogstraten en Joachim Oudaan, Zelfportret van Samuel van Hoogstraten, 1677, collectie RKD

Herman Saftleven plaque unveiled

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On 14 January, a plaque was unveiled in Utrecht in honour of Herman Saftleven (1609-1685).
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Winter issue Oud Holland

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Adriaan de Vries and Nicolaas de Roever, a 140-year-old friendship.
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Cover Oud Holland 2024-4, jaargang 137