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Recent publication
There are many books about the Tulipmania. A recent pulication in relation to the exposition at The Black Tulip Museum, is a book by Henk Looijesteijn in cooperation with Annemarie Vels Heijn. It is a pleasent read with many historic facts and knows. There is also an English edtion: “Tulip Fever – 1636-1637 – Myth… Read more
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International Portrait Day
On Friday the 23rd of June it was International Portrait Day. We shared the portrait of a sultan presenting the cultivated tulips of the Ottoman Empire to the world. Thank you for this gift! The ‘Sultan with Tulips’ is part of the Ninetynine Tulips collection, until the end of August on display at the Black… Read more
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Collection complete!
On Monday the 12th, the Ninetynine Tulips team successfully delivered the remaining 54 paintings to Museum the Black Tulip in Lisse! For me, it was a significant day as I had just completed the 99th tulip portrait a few days prior. The journey to accomplish this feat took a little under three years, a process… Read more
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Root en geel van Leijden
As the name suggests (translates to red and yellow of Leijden), this tulip is striped red and yellow, of which there were about ten other variants during the tulip fever. Apparently, this variant came from Leiden. Root en geel van Leijden was one of the more sustainable tulip species from the 17th century. The tulip… Read more
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Tamberlaan
During the 16th and 17th centuries, stories circulated in Europe about the Great Tamberlane, a ruler who was known to have reigned around 1390 and had crushed the Turkish sultan. This referred to Timur the Lame (1336-1405), a Mongol ruler who conquered much of the Islamic world in the second half of the 14th century,… Read more
