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The Mauritshuis, which shows masterworks by Johannes Vermeer (including Girl with a Pearl Earring), Frans Hals, Jan Steen, ...
A show argues that the Jewish tale was interpreted as a symbol of liberation from Spanish rule in 17th-century Dutch society.
Young Lion Resting, which went on show in Amsterdam this week, could approach a record price for a work on paper at auction next year ...
A large private collection of Dutch Old Masters is making available 75 of its works, including 18 Rembrandts, for the ...
Rembrandt did not like his legs. This is one of the more surprising revelations from a tour around an extraordinary loan of ...
It’s April and spring is here. Our offerings for April include a couple of outside pursuits and if the weather goes Dutch again, there is plenty to enjoy indoors. Enjoy una peli Española The Spanish ...
Jan Havickszoon Steen was born in Leiden in 1626. You might remember that Leiden was hometown to another famous painter, Rembrandt van Rijn. It seems that the water of Leiden had some magical ...
And he was right: at one 18th-century auction in Amsterdam, some shells sold for more than paintings by Jan Steen and Frans Hals, and only slightly less than Vermeer's now-priceless Woman in Blue ...