Art in Amsterdam
Amsterdam loves its artists. There are several famous artist from the Netherlands, not the least of which is Van Gogh. Caleb and I are not art experts, but we are maybe what you’d call “casual appreciators”. We spent a couple hours at the Rijksmuseum and a couple hours at the Van Gogh museum. Rijksmuseum We heard a great tip from someone to not pay for the audio tour for the Rijksmuseum because it is the same thing as what is on the free app. That worked wonderfully. It gave us a highlights tour so we could see the famous things, take a minute to appreciate them and then move on. The great hall Stain glass windows in the great hall This was the one painting I knew about. It is called “The Milkmaid” and is Vermeer. He is the same artist that painted “The Girl with the Pearl Earring”. I read a book about him and learned that he specifically painted regular people doing regular, everyday things. Until him, most painters onl...
