Realism has fulfilled itself willy-nilly at various moments in Western visual culture, from ancient Roman portrait sculpture to the invention of photography. Seventeenth century painting in the Low ...

Ten years after two dozen Dutch masterworks from the 17th and 18th centuries were stolen from the Westfries Museum in Hoorn, Netherlands, the institution’s officials fear the works are being sold off ...

AMSTERDAM, Oct 29 (Reuters) - A commission investigating the looting of Dutch property during the Nazi era said on Tuesday it had identified more than 100 works of art, including two 17th century ...

Wander among a collection of some of the greatest works by the Old Masters at the “Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection” exhibition. The show features ...

The Dutch painter Jan Vermeer was no stranger to the kind of socially isolated world we now find ourselves in. His hometown of Delft was stricken with plague several times in the artist’s lifetime. In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Thomas Escritt AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A commission investigating the looting of Dutch property during the Nazi era said on ...