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Portraits of Giuliano and Francesco…
Piero di Cosimo, 1482 - 1485, painting, SK-C-1368
This diptych shows a leading Florentine architect, Giuliano da Sangallo with his late father Francesco, also an architect and a musician. These are early examples of portraits in which the subject’s profession plays a key role. Here a pen and dividers suggest architecture, a melody in note form…
On display in room 0.5
The Seven Works of Mercy
Master of Alkmaar, 1504, painting, SK-A-2815
A town in Holland is the setting for a narrative strip showing how a good Christian should help the needy. In almost all the scenes, Christ appears among the onlookers. The scenes give a sense of town life around 1500. This is one of the many art works severely damaged when Protestants cleansed…
On display in room 0.4
Interior of the Sint-Odulphuskerk…
Pieter Jansz Saenredam, 1649, painting, SK-C-217
Once a Catholic church, St Odulphus’s passed into Protestant hands at the start of the Dutch Revolt against Spain. The artist shows a service taking place. Worshippers are listening to the preacher on the right in the pulpit. Sermons are the main feature of a Protestant service. Saenredam came…
On display in room 2.14
Portrait of Gerard Andriesz Bicker
Bartholomeus van der Helst, c. 1642, painting, SK-A-147
Bartholomeus van der Helst portrayed both Bickers, father and son. The difference between the two generations is striking. The father is dressed in sober black, wearing an old-fashioned millstone ruff. His son Gerard - here about twenty - appears in a colourful, flamboyant costume, with a flat…
On display in room 2.18
The Raree-show (’t Fraay Curieus)
Willem van Mieris, 1718, painting, SK-A-4941
Saul and the Witch of Endor
Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, 1526, painting, SK-A-668
On display in room 0.6
The Crucifixion
Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, c. 1507 - c. 1510, painting, SK-A-1967
On display in room 0.1
Four Young Bulls in a Meadow
Paulus Potter, 1651, painting, SK-C-206
Still Life with Flowers
Balthasar van der Ast, c. 1625 - c. 1630, painting, SK-A-2103
On display in room 2.6