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The stylish soirée took over Bette Davis' former party house to recognize powerhouses across entertainment, philanthropy, ...
Maybe the reason Amsterdam has become so busy is that the Dutch don’t want you to know about all the other great places to ...
Unlike so many of Sherald’s elegantly posh subjects, he dons a modest, white ribbed undershirt and his facial hair seems ...
Conservators at The Mauritshuis gallery in the Hague, Netherlands, say that three paintings in the museum’s collection initially attributed to Rembrandt van Rijn were probably made or copied by ...
The descriptions were so lively, one witness recorded, that ‘they could almost see Rembrandt’s Prodigal Son and da Vinci ... it’s hard to assess the botanists’ sacrifice. But, by any measure, the ...
As a young painter in Leiden, Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn signed his canvases with a monogram, but once he hit his stride in Amsterdam he began signing his work as we ...
But even Rembrandt had this problem. His realistic paintings include intricate details, shadows and reflections and some even portray gold in a convincing way. Rembrandt's 1642 masterpiece "The ...
Chemists have for the first time established how Rembrandt applied special arsenic sulfide pigments to create a 'golden' paint. Chemists at the Rijksmuseum and the University of Amsterdam (UvA ...
A new book about the relationship between the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn and the Jews points to the peril for Jewish art lovers of wishful thinking. Rembrandt Seen Through Jewish Eyes ...
New results from the Rijksmuseum’s ongoing research into Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch” suggest that he treated his canvas with a lead-based substance before painting the ground layer.
Christie's in London has auctioned off two portraits by Rembrandt that were last sold in 1824, by the same auction house. Since then, the paintings had been forgotten ...