While the bulk of 17th-century Dutch art celebrated the opulence and abundance of the time, there was a sub-movement that flipped that message on its head. Those paintings about futility from the ...

THE history of art is to a certain extent one long series of rehabilitations. As styles change, men and periods slip into comparative obscurity, and a later age whisks them back into favor. So it has ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Dutch merchants sailing back and forth to Indonesia in the 17th century to monopolize European trade in nutmeg, mace and cloves, were also delighted to bring home large, flawless ...

Penitent Magdalene, a painting by the Italian baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi, is seen in the conservation studio at the Kimbell Art Museum, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Fort Worth. The painting ...

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 ...

Illustration in ‘Pitture scelte…’: Joseph Juster (active c. 1690) after Giampetrino (active 1495–1549), Madonna del giglio (courtesy Marquand Library of Art ...

Today, 17th-century painter Michaelina Wautier earns comparisons to Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony Van Dyck. But for centuries, the accomplished Flemish Baroque painter had been all but forgotten. In ...

When I meet Rollins Museum of Art director Ena Heller, she is glowing with the radiance of a scholar who almost can’t believe her good fortune. “It’s probably the largest and best collection of ...

An exhibition at LACMA examines the legacy of Dutch colonization through a fictive 17th-century collector’s room of wonders Anne Wallentine - History Correspondent “The World Made Wondrous: The Dutch ...