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PM's third White House visit ends without a truce with Hamas, and without pressure from Trump; polls within Israel show the ...
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What Rembrandt saw in Balaam
In the rabbinic imagination, messengers from nature convey God's truth - whether stones, trees, or a donkey - when the people ...
Secret gardens in London - dotted throughout the city are hidden botanical gems waiting to be discovered, from relaxing spaces along the river to ruined churches reclaimed by nature.
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 ...
Jan Lievens: Out of Rembrandt’s Shadow A new exhibition re-establishes Lievens’ reputation as an old master, after centuries of being eclipsed by his friend and rival ...
Esther secured her place in history, joining a long, celebrated line of women who give of themselves selflessly for the good of the nation.
Jessie Childs, writing about Simon Parkin’s The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad, captures the relentlessness of the Siege of Leningrad and its unpredictabilities, in particular the survival of the ...
For a year now, in the search for new artists for my column “ Three artists, three questions ,” I have been fascinated by how Israel is so rich in artists and exhibitions, from which I dare to choose ...
Art History What Makes Rembrandt So Great? A Look at 10 of His Most Iconic Works From 'Night Watch' to loving portraits of his wife, these are the paintings that define the Dutch Old Master.
Researchers at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam used chemistry methods to learn how Rembrandt mixed different pigments to create a realistic color gold in The Night Watch.
Chemists have for the first time established how Rembrandt applied special arsenic sulfide pigments to create a 'golden' paint.