Alan O’Neill

Art History. Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.💙

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@EmmaHarding01 @BBCRadio3 Very impressive homework 🙌🙌🙌

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Vermeer at The Mauritshuis 💙

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And of course, Fabritius

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I am at The Birds exhibition at The Mauritshuis. It is interesting,

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@RembrandtsRoom @FrisoG Again I don’t doubt their good intentions but it is simply too long.

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Someday we will get there

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Clara Peeters still life 1615 with a self portrait and her name 💙. Photos I took at the Mauritshuis.

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@RembrandtsRoom @FrisoG I don’t doubt the good intentions for one minute but that is an exceptionally long time. If you retired at 65 there’s not a hope of ever seeing it. Civil servants great plans. Never put an artist in charge of a gallery. I agree with the shift work idea

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@FrisoG walking around The Hague, the thought did occur to me that as a society we tend to prioritise ‘the future’. A lot of buildings going up, construction everywhere and yet we forget our present. The last time I was in The Rijksmuseum it was being restored and the time before. 😔

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‘Protest against Nazi Terror’, 1936, Harmen Meurs. Photos I took at The Rijksmuseum.

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Always discovering something new in The Rijksmuseum, Ludovico Carracci, The vision of St Francis, 1583. It is written that it is the first depiction of The Virgin in art as a vision to saint Francis. Fulfilling the demands of the council of Trent. Emotion in Art 💙

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@alfredlanda I give up, it’s too many years now 🤷

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Carel Willink’ Love, 1923 at The Rijksmuseum today. An oasis and joyful painting in a very busy Rijksmuseum. 💙

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@wayneq4444 It is

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I am in Utrecht at the Van Honthorst exhibition and it is stunning. It is beautifully curated. The lighting is superb. I have to admit one of the finest exhibitions I have ever seen. A totally immersive experience. I couldn’t recommend it highly enough. Bravo 🙌 🙌🙌🙌

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One by Rembrandt, one by Van Honthorst. The same woman. Amalia Van Solms, 1632. Photos I took today at Utrecht 💙

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At the van Honthorst exhibition today they had 3 Interactive booths. When you walked in you could hear sounds of the theme of the painting. It was beautifully curated. Hats off to Utrecht Museum Centraal. Brilliantly curated and Spacious. 💙

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The Exhibition catalogue is very nice indeed. Quite a big hardback, expensive but worth it

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They have placed Van Dyck’s and Van Honthorst’s Lamentation’s opposite each other. 💙

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Mass this morning at St James the greater in The Hague. A lovely mass with a mixture of Latin and Dutch. Hope you have a peaceful Sunday 💙