In art, a romantic landscape traditionally evokes melancholy and stimulates the imagination, with dense forests and inhospitable mountains interspersed by serene meadows, all rendered with technical

Fine dining is a form of sensory seduction. It operates not only via the taste buds, but also via the visual appeal of the food and table setting. Beautiful porcelain and silverware, glittering

Royal Copenhagen painter Stephan Ussing (1868-1958) is known for his depictions of swans. This choice of subject is understandable: unpainted porcelain comes out of the kiln perfectly white, a feature...

How many meanings does colour have? And what do artists do with that?

In True Colors, highlights of contemporary art dialogue with icons of modern art. Charley Toorop, Donald Judd and Bridget Riley

In 1914 Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1882-1976) spent the summer in Hohwacht, a somewhat remote municipality in northern Germany surrounded by pristine nature. Here, he painted Frauen im Grünen: two women...

It started in the late nineteenth century: an unprecedented explosion of colour used in a completely innovative way. In France, the artists, who included Henri Matisse and Kees van Dongen, were

Conservator Ruth Hoppe got the surprise of her life when she looked at the x-ray of Wisteria. This masterpiece, one of three paintings by Claude Monet (1840-1926) in Gemeentemuseum Den Haag’s...

Steltman Jewellers opened in The Hague exactly one hundred years ago. From the start, the ‘Joaillerie Artistique’ (art jewellery shop) placed an emphasis on artistic design. Typical Steltman pieces