Someone is there, agrees the artistic director of the Stedelijk Museum Vianen. “He proclaims: we are the beggars, the saviors of faith.” As far as Van den Belt is concerned, the canvas represents the freedom and tolerance that the Netherlands wants to propagate. “To show that as a museum, you need objects and not just words. People must be able to feel: oh, that’s how it works. That they know where the Netherlands started: here in Vianen, center of the Netherlands, center of the history.”
Why Vianen – successfully – collects money for a portrait of Hendrik van Brederode: ‘He was a hero’
