The Papenbroek Collection is one of the largest 18th-century Dutch art collections. After the death of its owner, Gerard van Papenbroek (1673–1743), the...

Nubia. The collection of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden began with an inheritance in 1743. After the death of Gerard van Papenbroek, his collection was bequeathed...

Antichità di Ercolano, account of discoveries at Herculaneum. 1743: The Papenbroek Collection is bequeathed to Leiden University, comprising about 150 antiquities...

parts of the collection ended up in Germany and with other Dutch collectors. Some antiquities found their way to the Papenbroek Collection, and through...

Mattabol, Ma'zin and Claudia. In general, a civic tribe (Phyle) is a collection of people chosen from the collective population and ascribed a deity as...

cabinet of Leiden University. This collection of antiquities consisted of the inheritance of the Papenbroek Collection which came into the university's...

Ages. In 1681, prompted by the doubts raised by the Jesuit Daniel van Papenbroek over the authenticity of supposed Merovingian documents held at the Abbey...