View the Mauritshuis with Your Ears

Singer-songwriter Latanya Alberto is blessed with talent and a hefty dose of ambition. She has performed in collaboration with the Metropole Orchestra and toured India. These opportunities allowed Latanya to share her message with a very diverse audience. Now

Versatile neo-soul singer Joya Mooi loves jazz, R&B and hip hop. Over the past few years she has released four albums and worked with artistes like Baloji, Full Crate and Anthony Valadez. When we invited her to write a song about one of our paintings here at the Mauritshuis, she actually came up with a whole album’s of music worth about her favourites...

DJ and producer San Holo has fans all over the world, lives and works in LA and has even played Coachella. Multiple times! But he is also Sander van Dijck from Zoetermeer. We invited him to the Mauritshuis to write a song about one of our paintings, and discovered that he could have been an art historian...

Dave von Raven of The Kik felt inspired by a romantic diptych: he chose the portraits of Jakob Ompalius and Elisabeth Bellinghausen!

Singer-songwriter MEROL took over the baton from Spinvis with a unique mini-concert in the Mauritshuis.

Spinvis kicked off our music project View the Mauritshuis with your ears with an ode to our most famous work of all: Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring.

In his track 'View of Delft', Harrie Jekkers sings about his memories of the city. From his first love to his first kiss near the Nieuwe Kerk.

‘I really like it here, man. It’s like a really crazy treasure chest.’ Willy Wartaal's final choice was Jan Steen's Moses and Pharaoh’s Crown by Jan Steen from 1670.

To his own surprise, Jett Rebel's choice is the ‘modello’, or preparatory sketch, for the Virgin Mary’s ascent into heaven by Peter Paul Rubens

To Eefje de Visser her painting reminds her a bit of Liberace: over-the-top and shameless.

For the eighth edition of View the Mauritshuis with Your Ears, we got together with none other than Dio. The rapper - known for hits like 'Dom, Lomp & Famous' - has set the dial of his Time Machine to the seventeenth century, roaming through the Mauritshuis in search of fresh inspiration.