Benjamin Moser is an exemplary museumgoer, the kind we should all aspire to be. An American expat based in Utrecht, Netherlands, he returns again and again to the galleries he loves, to seek out his ...
I opened the PDF for Dutch Painting expecting to find yet another book about Hals, Rembrandt, and Vermeer— the familiar canonical Dutch figures. No doubt, so I anticipated, the ever-reliable art ...
Art history hardly knew Judith Leyster—that is, until now. Today, 362 years after the Dutch painter’s death, Leyster takes the internet’s stage, featuring in the day’s Google Doodle, the search engine ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At the height of her fame, the Dutch golden age artist Maria van Oosterwijck counted Louis XIV of France, the ...
Some historical figures achieve fame and fortune in life. Others owe their success thanks to their untimely deaths. Carel Fabritius, Rembrandt's most promising pupil, falls somewhere in between the ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and Houston native Ben Moser’s latest book is called “The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters.” Writer Ben Moser is used to writing about other people. The ...
In other European places in the 17th century, art was a luxurious product not quite accessible to the ordinary citizens. Paintings were made for the church, nobility and royal courts. However, in the ...
Today’s Google Doodle features a few clever takes on the distinct artistic style of the beloved Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. It’s not known precisely when and where Johannes Vermeer was born, but ...
A guest on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow has discovered a painting he bought at a South African curio shop in the 1980s is worth between £12,000 and £18,000 ($16,000 to $24,000), several hundred times ...
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