Despite the active tradition of scholarship on Dutch painting of the seventeenth century, scholars continue to grapple with the problem of how the strikingly realistic characteristics of art from this ...

Willem van de Velde the Elder and his son Willem van de Velde the Younger were the most influential maritime artists of the 17th century Willem van de Velde ... the artists left their homeland in the ...

Introduced to the Netherlands from ... connoisseurs, artists, and intellectuals. They rapidly became a coveted luxury item, and their vividly striped blooms feature prominently in flower paintings of ...

The picture has previously been linked to several seventeenth-century Dutch artists, most notably Govert Flinck ... Group portraits were popular in Dutch painting, with Rembrandt’s Night Watch of 1642 ...

Gifts of art were pervasive in seventeenth-century Europe and many Dutch artists, like their counterparts elsewhere, embraced gift giving to cultivate relations with patrons, art lovers, and other ...

This seven credit, two course sequence will develop students’ fundamental understanding of certain physical, chemical, biological, and geological concepts and utilize that vocabulary and knowledge to ...

Frans van Mieris trained with Gerrit Dou and became one of the best known Dutch fijnschilders (fine painters), who ... specific type of lute, popular in the Netherlands and the British Isles in the ...

Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. Everyone was an elephant expert when Hansken arrived in the Netherlands ... Those portraits are notable because they part ...

Although the Dutch landscape lacked the golden sunshine and grand Roman ruins of the then-popular Italian views, artists could take full advantage of the changing seasons of the northern climate, with ...

Although the Dutch landscape lacked the golden sunshine and grand Roman ruins of the then-popular Italian views, artists could take full advantage of the changing seasons of the northern climate ...