Impossible to smell for now.
In The Hague, the iodized city of the Netherlands, the Royal Cabinet of Mauritshuis Paintings (that
of Vermeer's
Young Girl with a Pearl
Earring) is preparing to open an exhibition full of creativity.
From February 23, if the pandemic allows it, under the title “Volatilized - Perfumes in colors”, Ariane van Suchtelen will present some masterpieces in-house or borrowed from large neighboring museums executed by Pieter de Hooch or Jan van der Heyden.
To the public, she will of course try to convey its beauty, the genius deployed.
But also, she will try to make these compositions feel literally.
Exploring the representation of perfume and smell at the time of the Dutch “Golden Age”, this curator has indeed endeavored to reconstitute with the rigor of the historian the corresponding scents.
Sweet summer and winter scents of sweet apples, these openwork silver jewels worn by the beautiful ladies or the doctors of the time.
Exotic smells
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