Talk:Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

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Tsja - is there a local name (or names - both positive and negative?) for the particular flavor of revival style Cuypers used? It's more or less Gothic revival, but with those wonderful contextual additions that make 19th century architecture so nationalistic and fun in Europe and so - hmmmm - arbitrary in America (we didn't have any logic behind our revival styles - it was whatever the patron wished to emulate). --MichaelTinkler

The style of the Rijksmuseum is a combination of Gothic revival and Renaissance revival(?) (neo-gotiek and neo-renaissance in Dutch). The protestants were not to happy with the gothic elements, because the referred to catholicism. They called the building ironically the 'episcopal palace'. --Tsja

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Perhaps a explanation of what Rijk stands for should be included. Something like national, right? --rmhermen

Rijk means something like realm. Koninkrijk means kingdom. Keizerrijk means empire ruled by an emperor (Ceasar --> keizer). It shares roots with the German word Reich. Rijksbegroting means budget of the national government and "Werken voor het Rijk' means working for a national government agency such as a ministery. --GQEQR

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Is there really only one Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands?
S.

Actually, no. There are several other ones, such as the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden and the Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde, both in Leiden. However, the name of the one in Amsterdam is simply Rijksmuseum, nothing more and nothing less. Jeronimo

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Im not fan of art, so what would be an average amount of time somebody would take to observe the Rijks bakerboy4

A single observation can be carried out in approximately 0.01 seconds, depending on your visual stimulus limit. Walking through it would take about three hours ;o).--MWAK 16:47, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

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I saw this category : Category:Art_museums_and_galleries_in_Amsterdam

does this mean this page needs update? editors pls respond. Thx, Ron