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Professor emerita of art history at Berkeley University and a specialist in 17th-century Dutch art. Professor Alpers has published in Art History and other journals. She is the author of Rembrandt’s Enterprise and the authoritative but controversial Art and...

Painter of light, space and light reflections on water. A gifted observer with a fascination for light effects. Jan Andriesse spends hours in his houseboat contemplating the sparkle of light on water. His large, abstract canvases capture the changing light at...

An avant-garde and influential Dutch artist with an international reputation, whose oeuvre centres on light, observation, perspective and space. Dibbets’s works have found their way into numerous collections, including those of the De Pont Gallery in Tilburg and the...

Professor of theoretical astronomy at Leiden University and professor of cosmology in Amsterdam. Vincent Icke is currently working on three research projects. One is a study of the formation of structure in the universe and aims to explain the weightlessness of space....

Physicist and head of the climate analysis department of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute. Like Vincent Icke, Dr Können was also impressed by Marcel Minnaert’s Nature of Light and Colour in the Open Air, notably the second volume, Light and Colour in the...

A key figure in the Los Angeles-based Light and Space Movement. Turrell’s work is an exploration of space, light and observation. The aim of his projects is to make people focus on the act of observing. He has created outdoor installations in several countries,...

Professor of art history at the University of Amsterdam, one of the initiators of the Rembrandt Research Project, and a connoisseur of 17th-century painting. Van der Wetering is the voice of dissent when it comes to the significance of Dutch light in 17th-century...

A promising young artist who lives and works in Rotterdam. His first major retrospective was held at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 2002. Zandvliet (b. 1970) is a ‘true painter’, who finds inspiration in painting and the countryside. His art is about space,...