Room 0.1 is the best room (Beginner’s Luck)
The best entrance into the Rijksmuseum (quicker than the ‘fast lane’): room 0.1. The paintings and sculptures here make you feel so glad.
De ontmoeting van Joachim en Anna
Meester van Joachim en Anna
You enter room 0.1 and the first thing you notice is two elderly people kissing. What a great way to start your journey!
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De aanbidding van de koningen
Jan Jansz Mostaert
On entering room 0.1 I spoke with the grey bearded guard. He ended our chat saying: “Nou... succes hè?” Don’t install electronic check-in’s!
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Bezoek nu in het museum
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Timpaan van de abdij van Egmond
anoniem
You walk under this tympan into room 0.1. You look around. Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) got it right: ‘The First Cut is the Deepest’.
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Maria met het Christuskind
Adriaen van Wesel
In december 1980 I visited the Adriaen van Wesel exhibition in Rijksmuseum. Hooked for life!
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Sint-Agnes
Adriaen van Wesel
‘Mary had a little lamb/It’s fleece as white as snow/Everywhere the girl went/The little lamb was sure to go’. (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
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De visitatie
Adriaen van Wesel
I still cherish the catalogue: W. Halsema-Kubes et al. (eds.), Adriaen van Wesel, een Utrechtse beeldhouwer uit de late middeleeuwen, 1980.
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Maria, Jozef en drie engelen
Adriaen van Wesel
We can see the invisible baby through her loving gaze. This effect was of course not intended by the sculptor. But who cares?
Het sterfbed van Maria
Adriaen van Wesel
Mary dies in the split second when the censer is floating in mid-air, upside down. This is a freeze-frame shot! (Hitchcock, Capra, John Woo)
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De kruisiging
Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen
You walk into room 0.1. With your iPhone in your hand. You see somebody naked and you ask: ‘Who’s that man?’ (Ballad of a thin man)
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Maria, Jozef en drie engelen
Adriaen van Wesel
When the museum was closed from 2003 until 2013, I could live without the Night Watch, but I missed this old block of wood.
Drieluik
Pseudo Jan Wellens de Cock
In avant garde graphic novels sometimes the background extends over several panels. Such a smart modern innovation! Or is it?
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Het martelaarschap van Sint-Lucia
Meester van de Kruisafneming van Figdor
Like in ‘de Calvarieberg’ many chronologically separate things happen here at the same time, stressing the timelessness of those stories.
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Memorietafel
Meester van Spes Nostra
‘I am what thou shall be; what thou art I have been‘. Yes, my friend, we know. And we salute you. Let’s rejoice, for we are not dead yet.
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De heilige maagschap
Geertgen tot Sint Jans
Quiet faces, no ostentatious emotions, ovalness as a family trait. In a time of affective bombardments a painting like this is a relief.
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De aanbidding van de koningen
Geertgen tot Sint Jans
The world was so much simpler then. One road in the background leads to Europe, one to Asia, one to Africa. Who needs Google Earth?
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De Calvarieberg
Pseudo Jan Wellens de Cock
On the bench in front of this painting, I noticed that on my iPad Pro it was easier to decipher than looking at that thing on the wall.
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De boom van Jesse
Geertgen tot Sint Jans
In 1955, eight years old, I followed my parents on our way to the Night Watch. And then I saw the tree of Jesse. First glimps of surrealism.
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Maria met Jezus en vier heilige…
Meester van de Virgo inter Virgines
Epicurus sought ataraxia, tranquil pleasure, in his garden. But his pupils were all guys. This is what it should have been. Delvaux agrees.
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Bewening van Christus
Colijn de Coter
Watched the Parkland shooting on CNN and this mother said: it’s the worst thing that can happen to you: to see your own son, who got killed.
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Petrus in berouw
Meester van Hakendover
‘Jesus? No. Sorry. Never heard about that guy.’ As a kid, forced to listen to Bach’s St. Matthew’s Passion, I understood Peter all too well.
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Aan de slag met meesterwerken