In 1655-1656 the ceilings of the Weeskamer and the Thesaurie Ordinaris of the Amsterdam town hall were painted by Cornelis Holsteijn, that of the Justitiekamer by Nicolaes van Helt Stockade and that of the Burgemeesterskamer by Jan van Bronkhorst. The allegorical representations of justice, against the backdrop of a blue sky, are embedded in the architectural structure of the rooms on the first floor. In 2006, the Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg was commissioned to study the effects that natural aging and interventions done in the past had had on the linen canvas and the painter’s materials that had been used. The fact that smalt, a blue pigment that turns grey over time, was used for the sky parts had repeatedly led to extensive rest...
In the period up to the end of the Second World War, 21 women in the Netherlands completed an academ...
The new, enlarged premises for the Tweede Kamer (Lower House) took shape between 1970 and 1992. The ...
The Martenahuis in Franeker contains a special room whose walls and ceiling are decorated with vast ...
In 1655-1656 the ceilings of the Weeskamer and the Thesaurie Ordinaris of the Amsterdam town hall we...
After 1968, few changes were made to the Royal Palace in Amsterdam and eventually the palace was no ...
Over the past few years (2006-2011), the former town hall of Amsterdam, which has been in use as Roy...
Between 1648 and 1968 there were three major stages in the building history of the town hall and Roy...
The Amsterdam architect Arnold Ingwersen (1882-1959) left behind a substantial body of work, yet it ...
In 1808, King Louis Napoleon had the town hall of Amsterdam converted to Royal Palace. Besides makin...
In 2002, the Jeruzalem neighbourhood in the residential area Frankendaal, Amsterdam, threatened to b...
The Royal Palace in Amsterdam (originally the town hall) was restored during 2005-2011. The restorat...
In the middle of the eighteenth century, the so-called Koopmanshuis (Merchant’s House) at Rechter Ro...
The Westelijke Tuinsteden (western garden suburbs) in Amsterdam are regarded as a textbook example o...
In late 1895, in response to an ostensibly innocuous budget debate in the Lower House, a public war ...
One hundred years after its emergence, the Amsterdam School still manages to fascinate people with i...
In the period up to the end of the Second World War, 21 women in the Netherlands completed an academ...
The new, enlarged premises for the Tweede Kamer (Lower House) took shape between 1970 and 1992. The ...
The Martenahuis in Franeker contains a special room whose walls and ceiling are decorated with vast ...
In 1655-1656 the ceilings of the Weeskamer and the Thesaurie Ordinaris of the Amsterdam town hall we...
After 1968, few changes were made to the Royal Palace in Amsterdam and eventually the palace was no ...
Over the past few years (2006-2011), the former town hall of Amsterdam, which has been in use as Roy...
Between 1648 and 1968 there were three major stages in the building history of the town hall and Roy...
The Amsterdam architect Arnold Ingwersen (1882-1959) left behind a substantial body of work, yet it ...
In 1808, King Louis Napoleon had the town hall of Amsterdam converted to Royal Palace. Besides makin...
In 2002, the Jeruzalem neighbourhood in the residential area Frankendaal, Amsterdam, threatened to b...
The Royal Palace in Amsterdam (originally the town hall) was restored during 2005-2011. The restorat...
In the middle of the eighteenth century, the so-called Koopmanshuis (Merchant’s House) at Rechter Ro...
The Westelijke Tuinsteden (western garden suburbs) in Amsterdam are regarded as a textbook example o...
In late 1895, in response to an ostensibly innocuous budget debate in the Lower House, a public war ...
One hundred years after its emergence, the Amsterdam School still manages to fascinate people with i...
In the period up to the end of the Second World War, 21 women in the Netherlands completed an academ...
The new, enlarged premises for the Tweede Kamer (Lower House) took shape between 1970 and 1992. The ...
The Martenahuis in Franeker contains a special room whose walls and ceiling are decorated with vast ...