Mercury Fine Arts centre

Maerten van Heemskerck, Self-portrait with the Colosseum, 1553, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Education

Mercury Institute of Fine Arts provides art historical (courses of) lectures and presentations for museums and academic institutes such as HOVO Nederland, as well as for private individuals and business organizations.

Our lectures and presentations include such subjects as:

• Netherlandish Artists of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries in Rome and Italy
• Art Nouveau & Jugendstil
• Painted food in the Dutch Golden Age: on the Pictorial Traditions, Meaning and Function of Kitchen-pieces, Laid Tables and related Images of Food
• Self-Portraits and other Representations of Artists in 16th and 17th centuries Netherlandish Art
• Caravaggio and the caravaggisti
• Painters in Leiden (1500-1750)
• The Young Rembrandt in Leiden
• Baroque Rome: Caravaggio, Bernini and their Contemporaries
• ​Artemisia Gentileschi
  

We also offer customized presentations, guided tours and excursions on demand.

For further information, please contact: info@mercuryfinearts.com