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 in the ...
At first, the Dutch photographer Hendrik Kerstens’s portraits-shot over the course of nearly 25 years, from 1995 to today-look eerily familiar: A dignified and austere young woman, her face pale as ...
Precise brushstrokes in brilliant colors glistening on a petite copper canvas tell a story of the luscious and joyous intermingling of dozens of deities, some elevated in the light-pierced swirling ...
The era of the Dutch masters — many of whom have made their way into modern culture on the lids of cigar boxes — is one of those rare subjects in the art world that have generated interest not just ...
Allentown Art Museum’s “Portrait of a Young Woman” is more than a painting by one of the greatest visual artists in history. A new Rembrandt exhibit is going to help you find out why. “There’s a lot ...
Flattery didn't come easily to 17th-century Dutch portrait painter Frans Hals, who paid the usual price for honesty. He was poor. By his 80s, he was destitute, dependent upon charity for heat and food ...