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Old painting of the Amstel Hof - Source: Wikipedia One of the most beautiful museums of Amsterdam surely is the Hermitage, located on the banks of the Amstel river. The museum is housed in the former Amstelhof, a building erected in a typical clasical style. It was built in 1681. Hermitage Amsterdam  Some history In  1682, the Amstelhof opened as a retirement home for elderly women. From 1817, the facility housed both elderly men and women. One of the rooms was the largest in Amsterdam. Many members of the Dutch Royal Family and even Sir Winston Churchill visited it. In the 1990's the facility was dertermined as inadequate to meet the modern needs. Its residents sought to build a new sturcture elsewhere. Afterwards the Amstelhof became a museum. It was opened by then Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands and the President of Russia: Dmitry Medvedev. openings board of the Hermitage in Amsterdam Museum The Hermitage museum shows pieces of art ...

Hans Memling (sometimes referred as Memlinc) was born around 1430 in Selingenstadt near Frankfurt in the Middle Main region. Memling - Shine of St. Ursula - Own Picture Memling obtained his apprenticeship at Mains or Cologne. Later the painter moved to the Low Countries. There, Memling worked with Rogier van der Weyden in Brussels, Duchy of Brabant and at Bruges, County of Flanders. Memling -  Shrine of St. Ursula - Own picture In 1477, Memling was wounded at the Battle of Nancy. Afterwards the Hospitallers of Bruges took care about him. In 1479 and 1480 he painted this Hospitallers as a thank you. Memling - Shrine of St. Ursula - Own picture Memling worked for the Burgundian court and later for Archduke Maximilian of Austria (Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I). Memling died on August 11th. 1494 in Bruges.  Nowadays a lot of his work stays at the St. John Hospital in Bruges. Famous works like: Shrine of St. Ursula (see above), and the portrai...