Visitors come from all over the world to admire the collections in the Rijksmuseum. For most of them the main attraction is Dutch painting of the seventeenth century, known as the Golden Age. The broad range of great works by Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Jacob van Ruisdael, Jan Steen and Johannes Vermeer ensure that nowhere else can the special character and high quality of the Dutch school of painting be appreciated so well. CONTENTS: 1) Introduction 2) Republic and World Power 3) The Interior 4) Painting 5) Continuation Painting 6) The Civic Guard 7) Objects and Their Numbers 8) Information