The Bonnefanten Museum can be found in Maastricht, also spelled Maestricht, or Mestreech in local dialect, is a municipality, and capital of the province of Limburg. The city is situated on both sides of the Meuse river (Maas in Dutch) in the south-eastern appendix of the Netherlands in between Belgium and Germany. The name of city... Maastricht, Netherlands (disambiguation). The Netherlands ( Dutch: Nederland) is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands ( Dutch: Koninkrijk der Nederlanden). The Netherlands is a parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarch, located in northwestern Europe. It borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany... The Netherlands and is the foremost A museum is a non-profit making, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education and enjoyment, the tangible and intangible evidence of people and their environment. This definition is taken... museum for old masters and contemporary fine The Mona Lisa Although today the word art usually refers to the visual arts, the concept of what art is has continuously changed over centuries. Perhaps the most concise definition is its broadest—art refers to all creative human endeavors, excluding actions directly related to survival and reproduction. From... art in the province of Limburg is the name of two different adjoining provinces, one in the Netherlands (Limburg (Netherlands)) and one in Flanders, one of three regions of Belgium (Limburg (Belgium)). Once, what is now Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands were one country, the Netherlands, meaning the lowlands. When the Belgians split away from... Limburg. The museum is housed in a building designed by the Italian architect Aldo Rossi, (1932-1997 Milan, Italy) was an Italian architect. For the Venice Biennale in 1979 he designed a floating Teatro del Mondo that seated 250 that was towed out to sea. He also designed the National Opera House in Genoa. He won the prestigious Pritzker Prize for architecture in... Aldo Rossi. Together with the For other uses, see cupola (disambiguation) Cupola of St Peters Basilica, Rome In architecture, a cupola consists of a dome-shaped ornamental structure located on top of a larger roof or dome, often used as a lookout or to admit light and remove stale air. The word comes from... Cupola on the River The Meuse(Maas) at Maastricht Length 925 km Elevation of the source 409 m Average discharge 230 m³/s Area watershed 36 000 km² Origin France Mouth Hollands Diep Basin countries France - Belgium - Netherlands The Meuse (Dutch Maas) is a large European river rising in France, flowing through Belgium and... Maas, it is one of Maastricht's most prominent landmarks.

The presence of two different departments under the same roof gives the Bonnefanten Museum its own individual character. The department of old masters is located on the first floor and displays highlights of This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page. Flemish (in Dutch, Vlaams) can either refer... Flemish The Mona Lisa is perhaps the best-known artistic painting in the Western world. Painting is the practice of applying pigment suspended in a carrier (or medium) and a binding agent (a glue) to a surface (support) such as paper, canvas or a wall. This is done by a painter... painting from the 16th and 17th centuries. Exhibited on the same floor is the Neutelings collection, early Italian painting and an entrancing presentation of Maastricht General Name, Symbol, Number silver, Ag, 47 Chemical series Transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 5 , d Density, Hardness 10490 kg/m3, 2.5 Appearance Lustrous white metal Atomic properties Atomic weight 107.8683 amu Atomic radius (calc.) 160 (165) pm Covalent radius 153 pm van der Waals radius 172... silver. Prominent artists of American This article is about minimalism in art and design. For the linguistic meaning of Minimalism see Transformational grammar. Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features. In other fields of art, it... minimalist art and Italian The term Arte Povera was introduced by the Italian art critic and curator, Germano Celant, in 1967. His pioneering texts and a series of key exhibitions provided a collective identity for a number of young Italian artists based in Turin, Milan, Genoa and Rome. They were working in radically new... Arte Povera form the basis of the collection of The term contemporary art encompasses all art being done now. It tends to include art from the 1960s or 1970s through the present. Trends in contemporary art The most important component within Contemporary art practice, is that it continually engages matters and issues that are presently affecting the world. Cloning... contemporary art on the second floor. The collection is also remarkable for its large ensembles and room-size installations by younger artists. On the third floor, the presentation ‘Forms of Affinity’ concentrates in detail on the oeuvre of Aldo Rossi.

External link

• Museum Website (http://www.bonnefanten.nl/engels/index.html/)