A young man in his prime, Johan Hoyel was a little shorter than most, but with a strong, lean build. Hoyel had killed a man during an argument, possibly after too much drink, and was due to be ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland Museum of Art just purchased a flower tower of power. It’s an elaborate, 17th-century Dutch “Flower Pyramid,” made in tin-glazed earthenware. Blue-and-white pottery ...

In other European places in the 17th century, art was a luxurious product not quite accessible to the ordinary citizens. Paintings were made for the church, nobility and royal courts. However, in the ...

LAWRENCE –The importance of knowing what’s going on in your neighborhood and upholding its honor is at least as old as comparable societal expectations in 17 th-century Netherlands, according to a new ...

The Dutch state should return three precious paintings to the descendants of Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker, a commission on Holocaust-era stolen artworks ruled. In its findings on the ...

Seventeenth-century painter and biographer Arnold Houbraken records that Rembrandt once told a studio visitor to stand back from a canvas and its disagreeable paint fumes. Whether Rembrandt used his ...

On June 21, 1672, Johan de Witt, the Grand Pensionary of the Dutch Republic, miraculously survived an attempt on his life when he was assaulted after leaving a government meeting. Although De Witt ...

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 ...