“We wanted to show a Dutch public painting from the 16th and 17th century, and our project group quickly came to the heart of the matter: without Antwerp in the 16th century, the art of the ...

Nearly 400 years ago, Judith Leyster, the daughter of a brewer in the Dutch city of Haarlem, made a name for herself as a painter. She was one of the few professional woman artists of the period ...

The painting discovered in the attic of a barn in Connecticut nearly three decades ago was all but impossible to recognize. “It was filthy, black, dirty,” George Wachter, the chairman of Sotheby’s ...

Post would have been one of a tiny handful of European artists who could accurately depict the flora, fauna, and faces of ...

A professor of 17 th-century Dutch and Flemish art in KU’s Kress Foundation Department of Art History, Stone-Ferrier realized she would begin research for a book like “The Little Street ...

The Cleveland Museum of Art just acquired an outstanding 17th-century Dutch nautilus cup for $1.5 million from an auction of Rothschild family items offered at Christie’s in New York earlier ...

and is regarded as one of the masterpieces of Dutch 17th-century art when the map-makers and printers of cities including Leuven, Antwerp, and Amsterdam were seen as the greatest in the world.

The blossoms continued to feature heavily in Dutch art for the next century, and the flower and its cultivation are cornerstones of Netherlandish culture today. It is interesting to note that in ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland Museum of Art just purchased a flower tower of power. It’s an elaborate, 17th-century Dutch “Flower Pyramid,” made in tin-glazed earthenware. Blue-and-white ...