New research at the Nationalmuseum has shown that a painting in the collections, earlier ascribed to an anonymous artist, can now be attributed to Carel Fabritius, one of Rembrandt’s pupils. The attribution and dating of the painting are based on stylistic analysis combined with technical examination of painting technique and materials.
A new edition of the Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum Stockholm is now available. It is the first part of Volume 28, which contains scientific articles and information about the museum’s acquisitions in 2021. The publication is issued in digital format and is made available free of charge – both to read online and for downloading.
The Young Scholars programme aims to offer recent graduates the chance to pursue short research projects at Nationalmuseum. Over the next year, the museum will facilitate at least two such projects thanks to external funding from the Beijer Foundation and the Ulf Gillberg–Lennart Agerberg Foundation.
The Swedish National Portrait Gallery comprises over 5 300 works of art and is the world’s oldest national portrait gallery. To mark the gallery’s bicentenary, a book that traces the history of the collection will be released.
This year the Tessin Lecture for both 2022 and 2021 will be held since last year’s lecture was postponed due to the pandemic. 15 September Melissa Hyde will talk about why, in the eighteenth-century, to wear pink was to make a statement – a statement made all the more emphatic and enduring when memorialized in portraiture. 28 September Penny Sparke gives a lecture on the changing roles and meaning
A new edition of the Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum Stockholm is now available. It is the second part of Volume 27, which contains scientific articles and information about the museum’s acquisitions in 2020.
Nationalmuseum is publishing a new book about its collection of miniature paintings. The book’s author, Magnus Olausson, has been working with this collection for more than 30 years.
A new edition of the Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum Stockholm is now available. It is the first part of Volume 27, which contains scientific articles and information about the museum’s acquisitions in 2020.
A collection of Italian architectural drawings held by Nationalmuseum was the subject of a recently completed research project. Anna Bortolozzi, associate professor of art history at Stockholm University, made a detailed study of the collection, which was once owned by the architect Carl Johan Cronstedt.
A new edition of the Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum is now available. It is the second part of Volume 26, which contains scientific articles and information about the museum’s acquisitions in 2019.
A new edition of the Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum Stockholm is now available. This time, it is a special double issue with scientific articles and information about the museum’s acquisitions over the course of 2017 and 2018. The publication is published in digital format, and is made available free of charge – both to read online and for downloading.
Anna Ottani Cavina is Professor Emeritus of Art History, University of Bologna. In this year’s Tessin Lecture she will talk about Inventing the Landscape: The Origin of Outdoor Painting in Italy in the Early Nineteenth Century, the rise of plein air when artists abandoned their studios and took to painting straight from nature.
