Amsterdam another day

Ivy

No wonder people painted

Polish synagogue

The facades are purposely tilted. Ponder on the why of Design..

Anne Frank's house ai somewhere here. I'm imagining days when she was alive.

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Shopping arcade...not many shops but a lot of traffic for the loo.  Here's the thing about loos. The lights go off to energy save....and I learnt to do the Smile and. Wave...every 5 seconds😄

Queen Juliana was a people's favourite. And now there's a museum dedicated to her.

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And of course we went to the philatelist

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Caught this on my morning run

Round and round my boat hotel

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No...that's not a painting. It's the real thing!

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Yellows and blues...what is this tree that's streaming sunshine

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Art appreciation meditation...Klimt...You made me do this!

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It's raining. Two little boys are slurping their way into an orange ice candy. The shop with the  "best fries" in Amsterdam has two astonishingly long lines of tourists. Windows display cheese wheels in all sizes and wait for it...colours! There's red, green...even blue (no not blue cheese but lavender!)

Tram lines criss cross pedestrians who know not how to hop skip and jump trams, bus, cars, cycles and other cross pedestrians.

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Go vegan, Go veggie is big in Japan...umm Amsterdam. McDonalds advertises...'more than meat'. Burger King has a veggie option on big billboards. Restaurants have their veggie menu page open on their windows. Even Doner kebab proudly wears it's mushroom shawarma option on its meaty sleeve. And all the way from Kentucky....

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Paris...it was iris bus. Today Iris docked at sunrise. My predawn 5K today, I called Iris to Iris. What do you know....and there was this man wearing a Man Jacket at breakfast! So there...Iris to Iris.

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Amsterdam Riks Museum

Stories from time to time

Ants 

Archtecture

Portrait of a couple with Eryngium thistle, known in Dutch as ' mannentrouw' or male fidelity - Frans Hals (1582-1666). There was such a thing.

Vermeer ~ use of white

Light through the glass, one pane broken,  notice hot coals keeping feet warm, stream of milk as focus,  tiles (dado) to protect walls.

As one Art curator put it.... Vermeer is the painter of silent stories.

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Rachel Ruysch 1664-1760 ~ most famous female artist of her time. Patrons paid 1000 more guilders for her work. She was  appointed court painter and continued to sign her paintings with her own name. Even after home and children.

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Rembrandt's self portrait. Portraying himself as apostle Paul. He loses his wife and son. Paints his son wearing a monk's hood showing humility and austerity 

Rembrandt self portrait - notice scratches on paint to accentuate curls

Jan Lievens, his friend painted Rembrandt somewhat following Rembrandt style of contrast and small scratches

Unity of the Dutch in the Eight years War - Rembrandt

Night watch

Well..a part of...

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at the Naval gallery

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Library ~ 4 floors

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Ariadne and Bacchus ~ Bacchus chances upon the abandoned Ariadne and takes her as his wife and gives her a crown of 7 stars which he then throws to the heavens. Gerard de Lairesse 1641-1711

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I love this!

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anthony Van Dyck - Wedding of Prince of Orange (14) and Mary Stuart (9) in London.

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Dutch East India Company ~ a cradle made in India ( complete with ivory inlay and Yalis to protect the child) for personal use of officers and not for export. Colonial trade included colonies, slaves, spices...)

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Dutch drinking games

Continues....

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Drawn in by Monet

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Mesdag 1831-1915

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Breitner- 1857-1923 girl in a white kimino

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Jozef Israëls

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Christiaan Dekker

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A miniature apothecary whose contents are still preserved

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Museum courtyard

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Baked calendar

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Amsterdam for today

At the flower market

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Delft pottery shop had this chair outside

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Pepper nuts because ...the word for pepper in Dutch is spice. And nuts because the little cinnamon spiced cookies look like nuts! And there is the etymology!

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Business Call to Bradenburg. This was my conference room :)

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Rembrandt House 1606

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And in the middle of everything there's this!

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Go see the flea market. You do find some real stuff

Aruvamanai! Who'd have thought!

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Just Art

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Leaf out of a bed time storyl

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Till the sea