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 ...

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 ...

Johannes Vermeer's "Allegory of the Catholic Faith" includes evidence that the Jesuit perspective on optics shaped how the artist approached his paintings. Photo from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Jacqueline de Jong, c. 1977 (image courtesy Ortuzar Projects, New York) Dutch painter Jacqueline de Jong, celebrated for her contributions to painterly figuration and for her role in Europe's ...

Johannes Vermeer in his own day catered to a local clientele and so when he died, indebted, at age 43, with maybe 45 paintings to his credit, his name faded into obscurity until the late 19th century.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DUTCH, ENGLISH, AMERICAN, ITALIAN, AND GERMAN WORKS IN THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS. IT was a great piece of good fortune for Boston that Mr. Stanton Blake should have had the happy idea of buying ten ...

Thirty-two Dutch artists presented a number of their paintings and sculptures to the state of Israel at a ceremony here today attended by the Israel Minister to Holland, Dr. Michael Amir, and ...