At the end of 2007 the Rijksmuseum launched its series of collection catalogues with the publication of Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Volume I − Artists born between 1570 and 1600, the first of four volumes that will cover the entire 17th century. Now, in March 2009, a little over a year later, the Rijksmuseum is proud to present this online catalogue of early Netherlandish paintings: some 160 works by artists born before 1500.