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| The '''''Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen''''' is the main art museum in [[Rotterdam]], the [[Netherlands]]. The museum began in 1847 with the collection of [[Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans]] (1767 - 1847). In 1958 the collection of businessman [[Daniël George van Beuningen]] (1877 - 1955) was added to the museum. At this point the museum acquired its current name. | The '''''Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen''''' is the main art museum in [[Rotterdam]], the [[Netherlands]]. The museum began in 1847 with the collection of [[Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans]] (1767 - 1847). In 1958 the collection of businessman [[Daniël George van Beuningen]] (1877 - 1955) was added to the museum. At this point the museum acquired its current name. | ||
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| * ''[[The Glorification of the Virgin]]'' (c. 1490–95) by [[Geertgen tot Sint Jans]] | * ''[[The Glorification of the Virgin]]'' (c. 1490–95) by [[Geertgen tot Sint Jans]] | ||
| * ''[[The Wayfarer]]'' ({{Circa|1500}}) by [[Hieronymus Bosch]] | * ''[[The Wayfarer]]'' ({{Circa|1500}}) by [[Hieronymus Bosch]] | ||
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| * ''[[Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time]]'' (1939) [[Salvador Dalí]] | * ''[[Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time]]'' (1939) [[Salvador Dalí]] | ||
| * ''[[The Face of War]]'' (1940) [[Salvador Dalí]] | * ''[[The Face of War]]'' (1940) [[Salvador Dalí]] | ||
| - | The collections in the museum gives the brief description of history of design. | ||
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| - | The [https://www.boijmans.nl/en/collection/artworks/127537/the-wrath-of-achilles Wrath of Achilles], (c. 1630- 1635) by [[Peter Paul Rubens]], is a [[tapestry]] from Achilles series. The tapestries flourished hugely from the Gothic period and remained until today. These tapestries are the mirror image of the sketch but these are weaving techniques in which the design are carried out back to front. The tapestries were hung in the walls of prestigious reception rooms during these periods. | ||
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| - | The [https://www.boijmans.nl/en/collection/artworks/43843/tulipcabinet Tulipcabinet], (c. 1635–1650) by [[Herman Doomer]], is the cabinets built or used during [[Renaissance architecture|Renaissance]] period where the use of decorative motifs were famous. The tulip motif in this cabinet indicates the symbol of wealth and the tulip bulb carries the symbol of enormous sums of money in the 17th century. This also indicates that this type of cabinets were used by noble rich peoples. | ||
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| - | The [https://www.boijmans.nl/en/collection/artworks/109/display-rummer-with-panorama-of-the-city-and-harbour-of-hamburg Display rummer with panorama of the city and harbour of Hamburg],(in 1704–1709) by [[Johann Simon Rothaer,]] is a goblet or monumental wineglass which is engraved with cityscape of Hamburg using copper wheel engraving representing the 18th century and pre-industrial design. There are figures on the foot which represents the four seasons. These types of goblets were often used on the buffet during spectacular banquets. | ||
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| - | The [https://www.boijmans.nl/en/collection/artworks/2656/mountainous-evening-landscape Mountainous evening landscape], (c.1665) by [[Adam Pynacker|Adam Pijanacker]], is the two dimensional painting which were widely used as a decorative effect for wall coverings and was fashionable thing to fill the walls with landscape paintings in Netherlands around 17th centuries. | ||
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| - | The [https://www.boijmans.nl/en/collection/artworks/125847/mondial Mondial chair], (c. 1957–1958) by [[Wim Rietveld]], is the design manufactured during industrial which been created with sheet metal structure and fibre-glass seat reinforced with plastic. It was designed in the collaboration between [[Gerrit Rietveld]] and his son Wim. The chair gives remarkable simplicity with its special K profile of the back, the seat, the legs. | ||
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| - | The [https://www.boijmans.nl/en/collection/artworks/107213/cupboard-carlton Cupboard 'Carlton'], (c. 1981) by [[Ettore Sottsass]], is unique to the design practiced during 80s by Italian designers' group. This design was considered or called as anti-design as the designer had used liberal color with low cultural aspects. "Laminated prints of imitation marble and wood are used to decorate the surfaces of the furniture. One of the most used patterns is one taken from a blown-up image of bacteria. Sottsass once testified to having taken inspiration from tiles from subway bathrooms." Even though the materials used in this furniture were [[Industrial design|industrial]], they were produced in limited series as this design was the protest of designers against the mass consumptions and corporate design style. This development made everyone to think the purpose and meaning of each objects in their surroundings in transition of modernism art deco designs. | ||
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| - | Along with this type of design collections, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen holds many objects from 1500 to the present day displaying a specific theme in the history of design. For example, the collections of Oriental porcelain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the building. "The museum used seven rooms to exhibit some thirty themes from the history of design, illustrated by objects from the Middle Ages until now: from a 17th century tulip chest to an Eames chair, from ceramics from the middle ages to china by Hella Jongerius." These designs display us how almost everything was handmade which showed the craftsmanship before industrial period or before different technologies were invented. The collections in the museum shows the evolution of designs over the centuries to present day designs. | ||
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The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is the main art museum in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The museum began in 1847 with the collection of Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans (1767 - 1847). In 1958 the collection of businessman Daniël George van Beuningen (1877 - 1955) was added to the museum. At this point the museum acquired its current name.
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Selected works
- The Glorification of the Virgin (c. 1490–95) by Geertgen tot Sint Jans
- The Wayfarer (Template:Circa) by Hieronymus Bosch
- Nest of Owls (Template:Circa) by Hieronymus Bosch
- The "Little" Tower of Babel (Template:Circa) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
- Titus at his Desk (1655) by Rembrandt
- Belisarius receiving alms (1669) by Mattia Preti
- Hut of the Douaniers with Varengeville (1882) Claude Monet
- Portrait of Armand Roulin (1888) by Vincent van Gogh
- On the Threshold of Liberty (1929) by René Magritte
- Not to be Reproduced (1937) René Magritte
- Impressions of Africa (1938) Salvador Dalí
- Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time (1939) Salvador Dalí
- The Face of War (1940) Salvador Dalí
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