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Verkiezing Kunstenaar van het Jaar

De Kunstweek organiseert jaarlijks twee verkiezingen:
  • de verkiezing Kunstenaar van het Jaar
  • de verkiezing Kunststad van het Jaar.
De verkiezing Kunstenaar van het Jaar start op 1 mei met de nominatieronde. Deze ronde leidt tot de bekendmaking van 90 genomineerde hedendaagse Nederlandse kunstenaar. De genomineerde kunstenaars worden door meer dan 100 kunstkenners en deskundigen (het panel) bepaald.

De verkiezing leidt ook tot de samenstelling van de Galerie der Onsterfelijken. De Galerie der Onsterfelijken bestaat uit overleden Nederlandse kunstenaars. De stemming voor de Galerie der Onsterfelijken is grotendeels gelijk van opzet aan de stemming die leidt tot de opstelling van de Galerie van Hedendaagse Kunstenaars.

De nominatieronde wordt gevolgd door de eerste stemronde. In deze publieksronde (van 1 juli tot 15 september) kan iedereen eenmaal stemmen. Meer informatie >>

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Out-of print journal now on Kunstpedia

We have been granted permission to place articles from the publication ‘The Map Collector’ on Kunstpedia. The Map Collector, a quarterly journal for the enthusiast of historical cartography, is no longer being published but the articles remain a valuable and interesting source for the antique map and atlas aficionados. We are therefore grateful that the editor and publisher, Mrs. Valerie G. Newby, has agreed to make the articles available through Kunstpedia. We hope the articles will trigger an interest in historical cartography and map collecting in general.

It will take some time before all articles have been placed on-line as the articles have to be scanned manually, rearranged and prepared for on-line publication. Articles >>

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When discussing coin finds in Italian graves it is best to study the phenomenon across the entire medieval period, from the sixth to the fifteenth century. Only by comparing poorly documented periods with those for which the written evidence is more plentiful is it possible to appreciate continuities and disjunctures over time. It is also helpful to consider coins in graves in the wider context of the ritual use of coins. Few coins are found in ancient and early medieval graves compared to other artefacts. In the later middle ages, when graves did not normally contain gravegoods, an occasional coin is the only object that may have caused that grave to be recorded.


The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and private collections related to a mystical branch of Islam known as Sufism. While differing Muslim sects and diverse nationalities of the Islamic world may not always share a single religious or cultural ideology, the mystical and romantic aspects of Sufism tend to appeal to a global audience. Inspired by Sufi ideologies and the poetry of celebrated mystics such as al-Ghazzali (d. 1111) and Jalal al-Din Rumi (d. 1273), artists from the medieval Islamic period through the present day have produced works of art ranging from ceramic and metal wares to illustrated manuscripts and photographs.

This show marks first major showing of the artist’s oeuvre in New York in over thirty years. In addition to the well-known Parisian cityscapes that have traditionally marked him as the “Urban Impressionist,” Caillebotte painted scenes of outdoor life away from the city on the coast of Normandy and in the villages of Yerres and Petit Gennevilliers, where he and his family maintained estates.

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Anfang der neunziger Jahre sah ich zum ersten mal Stickereien der Banjara. Ich war auf einer Einkaufsreise in Gujarat auf der Suche nach alten Textilien. Ich wollte eine repräsentative Sammlung indischer Stücke zusammentragen.  Seit einigen Jahren verfolgte ich dieses Ziel und ich war recht erfolgreich.  Meine Schränke daheim waren ziemlich voll, im Bücherschrank standen alle verfügbaren Bücher und Veröffentlichungen und mir fehlten eigentlich nur noch wenige Typen.  Genauer gesagt, ich war auf der Suche nach alten Turbanen aus Rajasthan - ich sollte sie einige Wochen später in der Nähe von Jaipur finden - und nach guten tie- and- dye odhinis und patolas, die ja auch aus Gujarat kommen.  Bis jetzt war ich mit meinen Einkäufen zufrieden.

This article is an introduction to the embroidered covers and hangings of the Punjab known as phulkari and bagh, which are worked with mainly geometric designs in floss silk on hand-woven cotton. It has been extracted from a more comprehensive German language monograph circulated privately during the mid-199os. The author collects and deals in tribal textiles, and his collection contains more than a hundred prime examples of these colourful folk embroideries.

Beschrijving van het 19e eeuwse aardewerk van Petrus Regout dat in zijn fabriek in Maastricht gemaakt werd.

Al ruim een eeuw staan de landschappen van Jan van Goyen te boek als de representanten bij uitstek van het realistische landschapsidioom m de Hollandse Schilderkunst van de Gouden Eeuw Aanvankelijk huldigde men daarbij de opvatting dat deze schildenjen het Hollandse 17de-eeuwse landschap weerspiegelen zoals zieh dat aan het oog van de schilder voordeed Men wist dat 17de-eeuwse schilders niet, of hooguit uiterst zelden rechtstreeks naar de zichtbare natuur schilderden, zoals de impressionisten in de 17de eeuw zouden gaan doen, maar wel tekeningen en schetsen m de natuur maakten. Deze natuurstudies dienden vervolgens als hulpmateriaal bij het schilderen m olieverf van landschappen in het atelier. Deze schildenjen werden zorgvuldig gecomponeerd, maar gaven desalniettemin de indruk direct naar de natuur het alledaagse 17de-eeuwse Hollandse landschap weer te geven.

This article focuses on the rhetorical figure of the 'paradoxical encomium' (the paradoxical eulogy) as the generic principle for the still life paintings by the Dutch painter Pieter Aertsen (1507-1575), the inventor of the genre. It is shown how Aertsen used the idiom of contemporary art with an artistically and socially high Status for his own experiments in 'rhyparography', a mode of pictorial expression associated with the 'paradoxical encomium''.

Notes on the Representation of Mary at the Cross in Late Medieval Netherlandish Literature and Painting

'How often did she [Mary] embrace and kiss that Cross with sad longing, especially where the blessed blood of Jesus flowed down along the Cross. And she kissed the earth there on which the blood of Xpi [Christ] feil, and she licked that blood from the earth with such longing that her face was full of blood. Oh, how sad Mary was.'


This thesis is a compilation of essays on topics concerning Japanese lacquer art of the period 1890-1950, each based on the study of objects and the literature. The essays are grouped into two clusters: the first one focussing on four leading artists of the period and the second one on the manufacturers of traditional utensils. For a better understanding, the clusters are preceded by an overview on the developments in lacquer art between 1850 and 1950. The closing chapter on storage boxes can be considered a by-product of the previous studies.

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