location – Rijksmuseum

location – Rijksmuseum

location – Rijksmuseum The treasure chest of the Netherlands, with the country’s largest collection of 17th-century paintings. Dutch Light shows some of the highlights of the collection and visits the museum’s repositories....
location – Nieuwkoop

location – Nieuwkoop

location – Nieuwkoop Jan Andriesse regards The Village of Noorden near Nieuwkoop as one of Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch’s most beautiful paintings. It marks a turning point, he says: ‘You still see Vermeer on the left, but Mondriaan’s diamonds are starting to sparkle on...
museum – Mauritshuis

museum – Mauritshuis

museum – Mauritshuis Arguably the best museum in the Netherlands for paintings of Dutch light, with one of the finest collections of 17th-century art. The Mauritshuis was built in 1640 for Johan Maurits, Count of Nassau-Siegen, after a design by the two most famous...
locations – Marken / Monnickendam

locations – Marken / Monnickendam

locations – Marken / Monnickendam Our baseline. Throughout the making of the film, the crew returned to this location day after day to film the scene at different times, from sunrise to sunset, and in weather conditions ranging from ten degrees below freezing in a...
museum – Hofwijck

museum – Hofwijck

museum – Hofwijck Former residence and country home in Voorburg, designed and commissioned in 1642 by the architect, poet, art connoisseur, and composer Constantijn Huygens. His son Christiaan lived in the house until his death in 1695. Christiaan Huygens was one of...