From Antwerp to Amsterdam – Museum Catharijneconvent, Netherlands

Come to the dazzling exhibition, Ode to Antwerp. The secret of the Dutch masters. Here you can see the great influence of Flemish painters on Dutch painting, on the basis of more than eighty Flemish and Dutch masterpieces from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It is high time for an ode because without the religious and economic refugees from Antwerp, the flourishing of Dutch painting would not even have been there.

Great masters such as Joachim Patinir, Maerten de Vos, Frans Floris, Frans Hals, Rubens, Jordaens and Rembrandt take you along in this turbulent story. Never before has such a large and comprehensive exhibition been organized on this subject. And who better to transport you to sixteenth-century Antwerp than the award-winning Flemish writer and master storyteller Jeroen Olyslaegers? In the exhibition, he tells you more about some of his favourite pieces.