Pieter Roelofs is a Dutch art historian working for the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam as head of paintings and sculpture. He specialises in Dutch Golden Age painting, particularly Rembrandt van Rijn.[1]
Roelofs studied history of art at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. After finishing his study, he worked as curator at the Valkhof Museum in Nijmegen. In 2006 he started working at the Rijksmuseum. In 2019 he led the restoration of Rembrandt's The Night Watch.[2] Using new scanning techniques the Rijksmuseum team discovered a preparatory sketch underneath the paint, which Roelofs said shows how Rembrandt searched for the right composition.[3] In an interview with the BBC Roelofs compared Rembrandt to a dance choreographer who grabs the viewer's eye and moves it through the composition.[4]
Roelofs was responsible for the largest Johannes Vermeer exhibition ever, which ran from February until June 2023.[5][6] The exhibition attracted the highest number of visitors in the museum’s history.[7] The authenticity of three of the paintings included in the exhibition is disputed, including the Girl with a Flute, owned by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The gallery concluded in 2022 that its painting is a work by an associate of Vermeer, but Roelofs has said in interviews that he believes it to be a real Vermeer: "The doubt disappears somewhere during the flight over the ocean."[8]
Roelofs is judge in two Dutch TV programmes: Project Rembrandt and De Nieuwe Vermeer.[1][9]
^ ab"Pieter Roelofs". ntr.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 5 February 2023.
^"Pieter Roelofs over de restauratie van de Nachtwacht". Radboud Universiteit (in Dutch). 18 July 2019. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
^McGreevy, Nora (10 December 2021). "A Hidden Sketch Is Discovered in Rembrandt's 'Night Watch'". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
^"Rembrandt's The Night Watch painting restored by AI". BBC. 23 June 2021. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
^"Straks 28 Vermeers in het Rijksmuseum: 'Een echte once in a lifetime'". Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (in Dutch). 31 January 2023. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
^Jones, Jonathan (4 February 2023). "Vermeer will never look the same after Amsterdam exhibition". the Guardian. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
^"Vermeer tentoonstelling Rijksmuseum breekt bezoekersrecord". NOS (in Dutch). 4 June 2023.
^Rankin, Jennifer (2 January 2023). "When is a Vermeer not a Vermeer? Reputations on the line over authenticity of artwork". the Guardian. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
^"De Nieuwe Vermeer: verdwenen werken van grootmeester tot leven gebracht". Max Vandaag. 17 January 2023. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
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