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A Barbershop, Adriaen van Ostade, 1673
A hairdresser is lathering a customer’s chin, before shaving him. The man is holding a bowl himself, to catch the soap and hair. At the back of the shop, the barber – both surgeon and haircutter – is binding a patient’s shin, helped by an assistant. The shop is decorated with the mysterious implements of the barber’s trade: bottles and pots, a distiller’s flask and a mounted fish.

brush, h 204mm × w 159mm
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Model of the island of Deshima, anonymous, 1850 - 1851
This model shows the Dutch trading post of Deshima on the eve of the opening up of Japan to the West. The island was very small, only 214 by 64 meters. The Dutch ships were loaded and unloaded at the gate on the short end. The bridge on the long side connected Deshima to the
city of Nagasaki. The port was strictly guarded to prevent anyone from entering or leaving Deshima without permission of the Japanese authorities.

carpentry, l c.198cm × w c.81cm × h c.36cm
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Portrait of Maximilian i (1459-1519), Joos van Cleve (workshop of), c. 1530
Maximilian i (1459-1519) was the Holy Roman Emperor. He was married to Mary of Burgundy. Through this marriage, the Burgundian Netherlands came into the hands of the Habsburgs.

Gift of Mr and Mrs Kessler-Hülsmann, Kapelle op den Bosch
oil on panel, h 34.6cm × w 24.4cm
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UniversityofGroningenLibrary

We recently added a unique manuscript to our #collection: a Book of Hours, written around 1480 at Selwerd Abbey. It is a relic from a period when #Groningen and its surroundings stood at the cultural forefront of the Low Countries.

The manuscript can already be consulted in person at the library and will soon be made fully accessible online!

Read more: rug.nl/library/collections/spe

#History#Histodons#medieval
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Saint Vitus, anonymous, c. 1500
Vitus was a 4th-century Sicilian boy who endured barbaric forms of torture after his conversion to Christianity. The cruellest of these was to be boiled, aged twelve, in a cauldron of oil, resin and pitch. Miraculously, he survived, thanks to his unwavering faith. Depicting Vitus in a cauldron was very popular during the Middle Ages, especially in southern Germany.

polychromy, h c.58cm
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Early Spring, Unkoku (school of), c. 1630 - c. 1660
Japanese folding screens are traditionally ‘read’ from right to left. The right panel features snowy prunus branches already in blossom suggesting that spring is breaking, while in the left panel spring is in full swing. The rippling of the water is highly stylized, whereas the flowering plants are precisely rendered. The gold leaf creates the sense of a wide-open space.

On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (purchase Leighton R. Longhi, Inc., Oriental Fine Art, 1994)
paper, h 180cm × w 370cm
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Travellers at Rest, Adriaen van Ostade, 1671
After 1670, Van Ostade mainly painted outdoor scenes, extolling unhurried, simple country life. The men drink beer and smoke their pipes. In the 17th century, Dutch people smoked so much that, according to foreign travellers, the smell of the Low Countries was the smell of tobacco. The most and best tobacco was cultivated in North and South America by people in slavery and shipped to the Netherlands for resale to other countries.

oil on panel, h 36.9cm × w 30.3cm
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