The New Rijksmuseum

The New Rijksmuseum
Author: Jaap Huisman
Publisher: Nai010 Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Museum architecture
ISBN: 9789462080584

The restoration of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is one of the biggest and most discussed renovations in Dutch history. This book shows the new Rijksmuseum, which will open to the public in April 2013, through the eyes of the architects: the Spanish duo Antonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz. Cruz and Ortiz have wide experience with alterations to old buildings and are internationally renowned for their sober yet recognizable, clear additions. For the Rijksmuseum they designed a plan centred on routing and orientation. The building, which had 'silted up' over the years, had to be made open and accessible again. Author Jaap Huisman introduces the reader to the design principles of Cruz y Ortiz. He follows their search for solutions for the many problems presented by the complex building - which was for many years the largest building in the Netherlands. The result is a purified museum that has rediscovered its dignity and is ready to display its world-famous collection to over 1 million curious visitors a year.

Rijksmuseum in Detail

Rijksmuseum in Detail
Author: Wim Pijbes
Publisher: Nai010 Publishers
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2017-06-27
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9789491714900

Many visitors in the Rijksmuseum use the 'in-zoomers' you will find throughout the museum: cards with additional information on selected artworks. These have now been made available in a book, a surprising view on 50 highlights of the collection. Each fold-out page offers a consise intro and points at the most important details. A great souvenir, or an easy reference work. English language edition.

The New Art Museum Library

The New Art Museum Library
Author: Amelia Nelson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2021-04-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1538135701

The New Art Museum Library addresses the issues facing today's art museum libraries through a series of scholarly essays written by top librarians in the field. In 2007, the publication, Art Museum Libraries and Librarianship, edited by Joan Benedetti, was the first to solely focus on the field of art museum librarianship. In the decade since then, many changes have occurred in the field--both technological and ideological--prompting the need for a follow-up publication. In addition to representing current thinking and practice, this new publication also addresses the need to clearly articulate and define the art museum library’s value within its institution. It documents the broad changes in the environment that art museum libraries now function within and to celebrate the many innovative initiatives that are flourishing in this new landscape. Librarians working in art museum face unique challenges as museums redefine what object-based, visitor-centric learning looks like in the 21st century. These unique challenges mean that art museum libraries are developing new strategies and initiatives so that they can continue to thrive in this environment. The unique nature of these initiatives mean that they will be useful to librarians working in a wide range of special libraries, as well as more broadly in academic and public libraries. The New Art Museum Library is uniquely positioned to present new strategies and initiatives including digital art history initiatives, the new norms in art museum library staffing, and the public programing priorities that are core to many art museum libraries today. This book is an endorsed project of ARLIS/NA.

New Museum Design

New Museum Design
Author: Laura Hourston Hanks
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2021-04-28
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0429788452

New Museum Design provides a critical and compelling selective survey of contemporary international museum design since 2010. It provides an accessible and analytic review of the architectural landscape of museum and gallery design in the 2010s. The book comprises twelve case study museum and gallery projects from across Europe, Asia, North America, Africa, the Middle East and Australia. Each built example is interrogated through an essay and a series of beautiful supporting illustrations and drawings. Where appropriate architectural analysis is cross-scale, extending from consideration of the artefact’s encounter with museum space at the most intimate scale, through detailed architectural readings, to the wider perspective of urban/landscape response. Similarly, the book is not confined in its thematic or architectural ‘typological’ scope, including museums and art galleries, as well as remodellings, extensions and new build examples. New Museum Design provides a critical snapshot of contemporary international museum architecture, in order to: better understand reasons for the state of current practice; reveal and explore on-going themes and approaches in the field; and to point towards seminal future design directions. This book is essential reading for any student or professional interested in museum design.

Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch Art

Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch Art
Author: Ruud Priem
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch Art celebrates an unprecedented era in the history of art. Drawn from the superb collections of Amsterdam's famed Rijksmuseum, the works of art featured here are a testament to the richness and variety of the paintings, prints, and decorative arts produced in the Netherlands in the 17th century. In a unique approach, Ruud Priem leads the viewer through the highlights of the Golden Age, beginning with the artists themselves and their studios, emerging into busy city streets and the bucolic Dutch countryside, and sampling the variety of 17th-century life and culture. Featured are ninety dazzling works by preeminent Dutch artists--Rembrandt van Rijn, Frans Hals, Jacob van Ruisdael, Pieter de Hooch, and Jan Steen, among them.

The Museum

The Museum
Author: Owen Hopkins
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2021-11-23
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0711254567

Packed with stunning imagery and featuring the world’s most celebrated cultural institutions, architectural historian and museum curator Owen Hopkins looks at the fascinating history of The Museum.

Museum Space

Museum Space
Author: Kali Tzortzi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2016-03-09
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1317092988

Museums are among the iconic buildings of the twenty-first century, as remarkable for their architectural diversity as for the variety of collections they display. But how does the architecture of museums affect our experience as visitors? This book proposes that by seeing space as common ground between architecture and museology, and so between the museum building and its display, we can illuminate the individuality of each museum and the distinctive experience it offers - for example, how some museums create a sense of personal exploration, while others are more intensely didactic, and how the visit in some cases is transformed into a spatial experience and in other cases into a more social event. The book starts with an overview of the history of museum buildings and display strategies, and a discussion of theoretical and critical approaches. It then focuses on specific museums as in-depth case studies, and uses methods of spatial analysis to look at the key design choices available to architects and curators, and their effects on visitors’ behaviour. Theoretically grounded, methodologically original, and richly illustrated, this book will equip students, researchers and professionals in the fields of architecture, museum studies, curating, exhibition design, and cultural studies, with a guide for studying museums and a theoretical framework for their interpretation.

Rijks, Masters of the Golden Age

Rijks, Masters of the Golden Age
Author: Marcel Wanders
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
Genre:
ISBN: 9789083226675

"Er zijn maar liefst 35.000 exemplaren van 'Rijks, Masters of the Golden Age' verkocht. Wegens het grote succes van deze uitgave is het tijd voor een nieuwe druk, en wel de 5e druk! Aan de 4e druk werden de twee beroemde huwelijksportretten van Marten Soolmans en Oopjen Coppit (Rembrandt - 1634) toegevoegd. De 5e druk bevat opnieuw extra pagina's. Na een tournee door de 12 provincies van Nederland, zal het imposante portret 'De Vaandeldrager' (Rembrandt - c. 1636) vanaf 2023 permanent worden opgenomen in de Eregalerij van het Rijksmuseum. Uiteraard verdient ook dit meesterwerk het te worden opgenomen in 'Rijks, Masters of the Golden Age'. 'Rijks, Masters of the Golden Age' brengt ons oog in oog met de iconische schilderijen uit de prestigieuze Eregalerij van het Rijksmuseum. Met de prachtige details van de kunstwerken en de commentaren van hedendaagse kritische denkers zoals Erwin Olaf, David Allen, Angela Missoni en Jimmy Nelson, is dit boek een waar eerbetoon aan de 17e-eeuwse Nederlandse meesterstukken."-- Provided by publisher.

Paris 1650-1900

Paris 1650-1900
Author: Reinier Baarsen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Decorative arts
ISBN: 9780300191295

From 1650 to 1900 Paris was the undisputed center of fashion and taste in Europe. Home to a unique concentration of artists, designers, patrons, critics, and a keen buying public, Paris was the city where trends were made and where novel types of objects, devised for new ways of life, were invented. This book traces the wonderful story of Parisian decorative arts from the reign of Louis XIV to the triumph of art nouveau, through a selection of 150 breathtaking, and often little-known, masterpieces from the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. It features an exhilarating mixture of furniture, gilt bronze, tapestries, silver, watches, snuff-boxes, jewellery, Sèvres porcelain, and other ceramics, as well as some design drawings and engravings. Specially taken photographs reveal the daring design and beautiful execution of the work of some of the greatest artists and craftsmen of their time. Reinier Baarsen discusses the history and significance of each object, presenting the findings of much new research. Published in association with the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam