One of the six is the painting you just spent time with, now called “Hunters in the Snow,” a depiction of a harsh winter: The other five scenes continue on a march through the year.

Pieter Bruegel’s painting “The Hunters in the Snow” has featured in a clutch of films, novels and poems, too. In Andrei Tarkovsky’s visionary science-fiction movie of 1972, “Solaris ...

After a challenging year in which international galleries, auction houses and museums have been forced to scale back their operations and make redundancies on an alarming scale, a slower, more ...