Jeroen Giltaij

After graduating, Jeroen Giltaij became assistant curator of drawings in 1972 at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, where he wrote the catalogue of the drawings of Rembrandt and his school. In 1978 he became head curator of old paintings and sculptures, in which capacity he organised various exhibitions including exhibitions on themes in seventeenth-century painting. The catalogue of the exhibition on architectural painting was awarded the Prix Minda de Gunzburg in 1991. In 1997 he obtained a...See more

After graduating, Jeroen Giltaij became assistant curator of drawings in 1972 at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, where he wrote the catalogue of the drawings of Rembrandt and his school. In 1978 he became head curator of old paintings and sculptures, in which capacity he organised various exhibitions including exhibitions on themes in seventeenth-century painting. The catalogue of the exhibition on architectural painting was awarded the Prix Minda de Gunzburg in 1991. In 1997 he obtained a doctorate for his thesis on the Sicilian collector Antonio Ruffow, who commissioned paintings from Rembrandt. His brief overview of the paintings of the Dutch Golden Age was published in 2004 and served as the starting point for his book. See less