A fearsome stuffed crocodile hangs menacingly from the roof, mouth wide open, sharp teeth ready to strike: welcome to the Art ...

Asharq Al Awsat Imposing but delicate marble sculptures of Graeco-Roman-style figures grace the vaulted corridors of a huge palace. But this isn't Florence or Rome. This is Amsterdam. As part of ...

Imposing but delicate marble sculptures of Graeco-Roman-style figures grace the vaulted corridors of a huge palace. Quellinus ...

The Dutch Golden Age, beginning in 1588, is known for the art of Rembrandt, the invention of the microscope, and the spice ...

Unlike today, travel teams did not exist; a shirt was your uniform; bats, balls, gloves, spikes and, in my case, even catcher’s equipment were affordable. In our Class F days, we walked a couple ...

This lush pastoral scene rescued from the barn’s attic in 1998 is View of Olinda, Brazil, With Ruins of the Jesuit Church, a 1666 painting by Dutch artist Frans Post. Less than two minutes ...

Trump rebranded it to “Golden Dome” — a nod to his vision for a “golden age in America” and perhaps his own penchant for the precious metal. In an Oval Office meeting last week ...

It is a fictional representation created for illustrative purposes only. In a significant cultural repatriation, two paintings by Dutch Golden Age master Frans Hals are returning to their homeland ...

In 2015, the Netherlands and France jointly bought a pair of works by another 17th century Dutch master, Rembrandt van Rijn, and swap the paintings every five years. The life-sized portraits of ...

Derek Thompson: The story of the Gilded Age wasn’t wealth. It was corruption. The Framers of the U.S. Constitution were haunted by many fears, but nothing terrified them more than corrupt ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A pair of paintings by Dutch Golden Age master Frans Hals that possibly depict his own children are returning to the Netherlands after more than a century overseas ...