Museums are great places to escape to. That’s obvious. An antidote to the daily grind, to highways and traffic jams and to current affairs, they have air conditioning, clean bathrooms, cafes. You ...

Following the Rijksmuseum’s landmark Vermeer exhibition, a new book delves deep into the painter's oeuvre and reception.

Contemporary artists are co-opting the visual tropes of romantic rural scenes and bringing them to uncanny new ends in the ...

The Dutch School, 17th Century comprised a group of artists active in this region in the period. Works identified as being by this group appear regularly at auction. What is Dutch School, 17th Century ...

Dutch still-life paintings omitted the ‘human cost of colonial warfare and slavery’ that underlay the bounty these canvases ...

A traveling exhibition resurrects Rachel Ruysch, an ambitious Dutch painter (and two-time lottery winner) whose intricate still lifes still stun.

Before the invention of the microscope and the field of entomology emerged, Joris Hoefnagel devoted himself to the natural ...

The world-famous Girl with a Pearl Earring was most likely not commissioned by Vermeer’s male patron, but by the man’s wife, ...

The Flemish School, 17th Century comprised a group of artists active in this region in the period. Works identified as being by this group appear regularly at auction. Since 1998 the record price for ...