Freedom and liberation through art

“A Boy in a Cape and Turban” Jan Lievens

 Beauty is truth 

“The Leiden Collection of Dutch Golden Age Paintings”

A fateful visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and an encounter with a preeminent art curator and historian while on vacation, became the seeds that grew to become one of the most splendid collections of old master paintings in the world. The Leiden Collection of Dutch paintings of the Golden Age (the 17th century) belongs to Dr. Thomas S. Kaplan and Daphne Recanati Kaplan. Millions of people have been able to enjoy this extraordinary group of 250 paintings and drawings since it was conceived and produced in 2003. Dr. Kaplan was taken to the Met by his parents when he was six years old and a later trip to Amsterdam to see Rembrandt’s city ignited a passion and curiosity that has given the world a view into the beauty and peace that can be found in these works of art.