Os, H[endrik] W[illem] Van   "Henk"

Date born:  1938

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Director General of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; University of Amsterdam professor of art history.  Os received his Ph.D. in 1969 from the University in Groningen, writing on the topic of Sienese Gothic painting.  In 1974 he was named to the faculty at the University of Amsterdam.  In 1989 he assumed the directorship of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

Home Country:  Netherlands

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Bibliography: [dissertation:] Groningen, 1969, published in German as, Marias Demut und Verherrlichung in der sienesischen Malerei 1300-1450.  's-Gravenhage: Staatsgeverij, 1969; The Early Venetian Paintings in Holland.  Maarssen: G. Schwartz, 1978; and Bisanz-Prakken, Marian.  The Florentine Paintings in Holland 1300-1500. Amsterdam: De Arbeiderspers/Netherlands Institute for Art History, 1974;  Sienese Paintings in Holland. Groningen: Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969; Vecchietta and the Sacristy of the Siena Hospital Church: a Study in Renaissance Religious Symbolism.  New York:  A. Schram, 1974; "Reassembling a Giovanni di Paolo triptych." The Burlington Magazine 119 (1977): 191-192;  "From Rome to Siena: the Altarpiece of San Stefano alle Lizza." Mededelingen van het Nederlands Instituut te Rome 43, no. 8, (1981): 119 - 202; Studies in early Tuscan painting.  London: Pindar, 1992; and Honée, Eugène, and Nieuwdorp, Hans, and Ridderbos, Bernhard. The Art of Devotion in the Late Middle Ages in Europe, 1300-1500.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994;   Netherlandish Art in the Rijksmuseum, 1400-1600. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.