Benjamin Moser is an exemplary museumgoer, the kind we should all aspire to be. An American expat based in Utrecht, Netherlands, he returns again and again to the galleries he loves, to seek out his ...
Art history hardly knew Judith Leyster—that is, until now. Today, 362 years after the Dutch painter’s death, Leyster takes the internet’s stage, featuring in the day’s Google Doodle, the search engine ...
Some historical figures achieve fame and fortune in life. Others owe their success thanks to their untimely deaths. Carel Fabritius, Rembrandt's most promising pupil, falls somewhere in between the ...
Nov. 12 (UPI) --Google is celebrating Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, a Baroque artist, who is considered to be one of the greatest Dutch painters of all time. Google noted that on this day in 1995, ...
In other European places in the 17th century, art was a luxurious product not quite accessible to the ordinary citizens. Paintings were made for the church, nobility and royal courts. However, in the ...
Today’s Google Doodle features a few clever takes on the distinct artistic style of the beloved Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. It’s not known precisely when and where Johannes Vermeer was born, but ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and Houston native Ben Moser’s latest book is called “The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters.” Writer Ben Moser is used to writing about other people. The ...
A guest on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow has discovered a painting he bought at a South African curio shop in the 1980s is worth between £12,000 and £18,000 ($16,000 to $24,000), several hundred times ...
The restored still life was painted by a 17-year-old artist known for his careful renderings of everyday objects. Courtesy of National Trust of Australia (NSW) A painting depicting a half-eaten pie ...
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