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European Sculpture

An online scholarly collection catalogue

This new online catalogue will present a comprehensive overview of the latest scholarly insights into the Rijksmuseum’s vast and highly diverse collection of European sculpture, ranging from the Middle Ages to the present day.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Compiled by Jaap Leeuwenberg, the former curator of sculpture, the most recent published catalogue of sculpture dates from 1973. The ever-growing body of art-historical research and the long list of acquisitions made in recent decades has prompted a thorough update of Leeuwenberg’s valuable, but by now outdated reference work. Since 2009 a small team of art historians and conservation researchers have worked on the new catalogue. This research has resulted in numerous new and surprising insights that are published in this catalogue for the first time.

In the coming months and years, systematic catalogue entries for every work in the collection will appear on the museum’s website, often accompanied by multiple views in high resolution. Netherlandish sculpture, from the Middle Ages to successive periods, forms the starting point. Sculpture from other European countries will follow thereafter.

AIM OF THE PROJECT

In its final form, the catalogue will comprise over eleven hundred comprehensive entries, reflecting the in-depth and up-to-date knowledge and insights on all the objects in the collection European sculpture of the Rijksmuseum.

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staff

Frits Scholten f.scholten@rijksmuseum.nl Senior Curator of Sculpture

Bieke van der Mark b.vander.mark@rijksmuseum.nl Scientific Staff Member

PARTNERS AND SPONSORS

This project was made possible in part by an anonymous donor.