Dutch Art, ridden by Alan Munro and trained by Peter Chapple-Hyam, won the opening race, the Norfolk Stakes.
Strangely, then, iconic Dutch art owes an essence of its character to religious iconoclasm, which diverted spiritual passion from sanctuaries to parlors and countrysides.
These became common after the first world war, with displays in London of Spanish, Swedish, Flemish and then Dutch art, all with international loans.
Police in Romania have detained three suspects linked to a major art heist, which took place at a Dutch art gallery last October, officials say.
Hashim, an avid collector of antiques, is also smarting over a scandal involving smuggled Javanese statues that he bought from a Dutch art dealer in 2006.
Mr van Rijn, 55, is the rogue Dutch art dealer who helped police set up an arts sting last week which recovered an ancient Peruvian head dress stolen nearly 20 years ago.
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While larger museums may contain bigger and better collections of 17th-century Dutch art, the Mauritshuis offers an excellent survey of all the genres that artists of the Dutch Golden Age so miraculously mastered.
The Dutch Electronic Art Festival exhibition runs until 3 June at Post Rotterdam and other sites around the city.
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Enter Milko den Leeuw, a Dutch restorer and art researcher who has, he believes, developed the definitive method for authenticating works of art, and an alternative to the flawed established authentication process currently in place.
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Our cover story profiles a wealthy Dutch woman whose vision of fine art led her to buck the prevailing taste of her time and amass one of the world's finest collections of Van Gogh.
After buying the apartment downstairs, he and his wife purged the antiques and used midcentury furnishings, like a pair of 1955 club chairs by Dutch maker Helioflex, to showcase their art in the new duplex.
He sees hope in the transformation of the abandoned collective farm into a state-of-the-art pig farm, underwritten by Dutch and British venture capital.
Involving gardeners in a state-of-the-art library is not an obvious step but Dutch architect Patrick Arends said it had become a key element, despite not being part of the initial brief.
In the DIY touring category, they also have a slew of inexpensive themed maps for purchase that encourage custom-made tours on topics like architecture, gay sites, Jewish sites, art and film (see where Sean Connery filmed 007's only Dutch adventure).
The turn toward secular subjects of Dutch culture in the Golden Age was a lucky result of Calvinism, which banished most art from churches while tolerating it in daily life, on the condition that it illustrate proper morality.
At a recent lecture at the LSE in London, market editor of The Art Newspaper Melanie Gerlis illustrated this new art world order with a description of the recent auction of a painting by Dutch artist Lawrence Alma Tadema, a long-forgotten Victorian favourite.
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Billed as part travel guide and part cultural, historical reference, it explores history, art and architecture, furniture and antiques, cooking, immigration, and English words of Dutch origin.
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