Journey into the Dutch Golden Age in this gallery of exceptional 16th- and 17th-century Dutch and Flemish art. Featuring some of the finest paintings of their kind in North America, the collection reveals how prosperity, trade, and culture transformed two great European cities—Antwerp and Amsterdam—into centers of artistic innovation.

Marvel at Triptych with the Crucifixion, painted between 1518 and 1520 by Goswijn van der Weyden, the oldest work in the museum’s collection and a masterpiece commissioned for a wealthy Catholic patron. As you continue through the gallery, discover how art evolved alongside a growing middle class, with paintings created not only for churches and palaces but also for homes and businesses.

Highlights include a striking self-portrait by Ferdinand Bol, Rembrandt’s most accomplished pupil, an expansive landscape by Jacob van Ruisdael, one of Holland’s greatest landscape painters, and works by Samuel van Hoogstraten, Jacob Jordaens, and Willem van de Velde the Younger. Together, these remarkable paintings offer a window into everyday life, faith, commerce, and artistic achievement during one of Europe’s most influential periods.