By Mikkel Bogh, director of the SMK, and Merete Sanderhoff, Curator and Senior Advisor in Digital Museum Practice at the SMK.Recently, several commentators have quite justifiably pointed out that art …
Local knowledge and thorough guidance has given us valuable new documentation about one of the gems among our Dutch master paintings. Read about how our visitors help us learn about our collections.
Couriers have brought rare books of flower paintings to the SMK in padded boxes, and they supervise the books being placed in book cradles.
When Duke Frederick III entertained guests at Gottorf Castle in Northern Germany in the mid-17th century he was only too pleased to show them his magnificent garden. Its vast expanses were home to a …
I have pulled on my soft cotton gloves in order to seize hold of a fold in the piece of parchment bearing a painting of the plant lords-and-ladies, also known as wild arum. Arum maculatum is the …
The artist in his workspace became a popular motif among students of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts during the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s.
The calf cannot have been more than six weeks old when its hide was taken. It might even have been younger, depending on the usual size of the particular race. After all, back then cattle were …