edited by Patrick Spijkerman and Cees W. de Jong
Amsterdam University Press, 2015
Cloth: 978-90-8964-900-3 | eISBN: 978-90-485-2767-0
Library of Congress Classification N2460.R485 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 7009492

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Few art collections in the world can rival that of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Built in 1885, the iconic museum holds more than a million works, with a particular focus on Dutch masters—its collection of works by Van Gogh, Vermeer, and Rembrandt are unparalleled.

The museum recently reopened after a ten-year renovation that cost more than $400 million, and the result is stunning: never before has the Rijksmuseum’s collection been displayed so well. This book offers a lavishly illustrated chronicle of both the collection and the building that houses it. Though nothing can replace an actual trip to the Rijksmuseum—as the more than two million annual visitors can attest—this book comes as close as possible, taking art lovers on a virtual tour of the greatest masterworks of Western art in a building that is brilliantly designed to show them at their best. 

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