Two centuries later, artists of the Dutch Golden Age made these faces come alive ... Erring from caricature, Head of a Woman is empathetic painting of a humble woman captures some of her ...

Dutch art contrasts notably with the Flemish Baroque ... refinement in their depictions of the objects. Progress in the golden age meant scientific advancement and religious toleration at home ...

Adam and Eve, attributed to the Dutch 16th-century artist Cornelis van Haarlem. courtesy Kaye Spiegler A painting looted by the Nazis during World War II from the collection of Jacques ...

The visual splendor of this Dutch Golden Age painter's work, featuring gorgeous arrays of fruits and flowers animated by buzzing insects, delights in tableau after tableau.

Aiming to elevate taxidermy to high art, Art Zoo opened Thursday in the heart of the Dutch capital, in a famous building from ...

With 80 works, the exhibition compares and contrasts the style linked with the time of the flowering of Dutch art – no longer referred to as the “Golden Age” due to its associations with slavery – and ...

The Rembrandt painting is pretty sober ... in his brilliant but short essay "The World as Object": In the Dutch Golden Age, [there are virtually] no portraits of women, except as regents ...

Painted in 1666, "View of Olinda, Brazil, With Ruins of the Jesuit Church" is a masterpiece by Frans Post, one of the first ...

For Laura Cumming, Dutch art is a placid paradise with the countdown to a cataclysm ticking away in the background. The immaculately swept streets and waxed floors in the paintings, the thin ice that ...

A newly discovered artist from the Dutch Golden Age, Michaelina Wautier has her turn ... director of the Center for Netherlandish Art at the Museum of Fine Arts. “As a specialist working in ...

and lecturer in Art History, Williams College The so-called golden age of Dutch painting in the 1600s coincided with an economic boom that had a lot to do with the transatlantic slave trade.