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THE HERALD Wednesday Juc Holland Museum Country In Holland country thai bouts more than rauMiinu one mine standi out among all the rest Amsterdams home of the worlds most famous and probably most valuable painting The Night Watch Every winter thousands of eager visilors make their pilgrimage to Amsterdam to stand spellbound before Rembrandts vast and recently restored masterpiece Wishing in many cases that they had allowed them selves more time to savour this and the many other treasures of the For this huge 19thcentury building on exhibits among other marvels the greatest Hon of Dutch Masters Five hundred years worth of paintings drawings and etchings signed by some of most artists who ever lived It would take a few days to appreciate them all There is gallery after gallery filled famous names Hung with the lovely landscapes and scenes the melancholy Jacob Ruysdacl by Vermcer and Jan delight full detailed skating scenes painted by Von Vcldcs awesome seascapes and naval battles Hollands Golden Age Here surrounded by these priceless works of an you can sec and almost feel how Holland must have been her 17ih century heyday When the young of Am stcrdam was capital of Europe Study the glowing paintings of Jan I Hals Adriaen Van Ostade Johannes Vermeer and those plot days come instantly alive again in Not of course that they have been allowed to die in Amsterdam Not in the old put of city rate Which is why it is so wonderfully to these Old Dutch Masters when you visit ihem on their own home ground When youve absorbed the an vases of stately eunl houses and spired churches you can leave the museum travel a few blocks and sec the original models The havent changed one brick the intervening You can spend all day among the museums Rem incredible Night Watch and the large eollcclion of etchings and other pnniins unhiding Portrait of the is St Paul and Old Reading Then take a streetcar to Jodcnbrcestrai and walk through the beautifully preserved house while Rembrandt lucd and worked for Iweni vcirs Sunshine In Technically perhaps he does not yet as an Old Dutch Master since he died less a century Nevertheless Vincent van is second onl to Rem brand as an attraction and trie museum named aficr him and devoted to his works is a plate in spend a few Amsterdam hours The van Gogh museums permanent show on Muscuniplem is a family collection put together by van the painters brother and administered by his nephew Vincent On one floor you will find all the darker more sombre paintings from Goghs Dutch period pictures like The Potato and the fascinating Cottage in Evening Twilight in which the sky seems to grow darker and the firelight more btlliant as you stare at it Upstairs the whitewashed walls sparkled with the sun filled canvases he painted in Bedroom at Aries dizhng Sunflowers and Orchard in Bloom Altogether there are 150 paintings and drawings signed And to complete the picture of this unique artist there is also a collection of works by his contemporaries and friends a portrait of Vincent by Toulouse I autrec and a picture of him painting Sunflowers by Gauguin The Hals a contemporary of Rembrandts was master of what might be called the Establishment style huge life sized groups portraying the upper of the time along the lines of The Night Watch Many of his most impressive works have been collected in the Frans Hals Museum in his home of Haarlem an easy drive west from Amsterdam The ornate interior has been restored and filled with furnishings of the period provide perfect back ground for Hals greatest works including Regents and painted when he was years old Recreations and healthful days Promised at American spas Crisp dry air wormed by the desert sun makes Palm Springs one of Americas major resorts The slates oldest resort is at Hot Springs where soothing mineral waters and rich mud baths add to the health popularity The medicallysupervised spa also offers golf tennis swimming and horseback riding in a mild sunny Resort 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