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The Exhibition 200 Greatest Paintings consists of a canon of Western art that everyone knows. Masterpieces such as the Mona Lisa, The Night Watch and American Gothic have gathered in Aalsmeer!

 

A SELECTION OF OLD ACQUAINTANCES

Art connoisseurs and laymen have compiled a list of the two hundred most coveted, valuable and famous artworks in the world. This list includes works from eighty different museums, made by more than hundred artists. These two hundred works are reproduced full-size and chronologically exhibited.

 

Go on a journey through the history of art, without having to fly around the globe!

 

A TRIP THROUGH TIME

200 Greatest Paintings is a trip through the Western Art History. The route of the exhibition is divided into seven periods of the Middle Ages to the present:

1000 = 1500 HIGH AND LATE MIDDLE AGES

Cities and States

 

1500 = 1600 RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION

Explorers and Reformists

 

1600 = 1700 GOLDEN AGE

Regents and Princes

 

 1700 = 1800 ENLIGHTENMENT

Wigs and Revolutions

 

1800 tot 1900 INDUSTRIALIZATION

Citizens and Steam Engines

 

1900 tot 1950

FIRST HALF of 20TH CENTURY

World Wars

 

1950 to present NOW A DAYS

Television and computer

 

ART IS AFFECTED BY TIME = TIME IS AFFECTED BY ART

By a ( multimedia) timeline you walk from the Middle Ages to today. Art styles, inventions, revolutions and political events that influence the cultural zeitgeist are also covered in the exhibition. We explain how and why artists made their works and how they influenced other artists. If you've walked the route of the exhibition you understand more about art and the influence of the main events of history. You learn and get entertained along the way.

 

SPECIALS

Besides a lot to see there is much to do in the exhibition. There are twenty specials of the ' most' iconic artworks of the exhibition. By these specials the exhibition comes to life. An example of a special is the darkroom of Vermeer. Vermeer made his work with a camera obscura . The same darkroom is recreated where you can make a work with the techniques of Vemeer! There is also a children's route which has more emphasis on " doing " things and is slightly shorter . We won’t tell you anymore, just come and see for your self!