the strangeness and utter originality that constitute Dutch art in the triumphant era of 1600 to 1660.” He said the sonnet was the perfect tool to capture his thoughts and impressions of these great ...

Rome’s National Gallery of Ancient Art at Palazzo Barberini offers an astonishing survey of the painter, featuring ...

From the Holy Grail of English watercolours to an El Greco that will transport you back to the 1600s, Christie’s specialists offer ... is the 17th-century Netherlands at its glory – the Dutch Golden ...

As a result, Dutch ... art as well. Although the conservative art academies continued to regard still-lifes as a secondary genre, modern artists resorted to it in their experiments. Unlike the ...

I’d always assumed it was a businessy to visit, being home to the Dutch parliament and the U.N.’s International ... There’s a great café scene, some quirky restaurants, modern art and architecture and ...

Dutch police, aided by journalists and art detective Arthur Brand, have now located it in a museum in the Dutch province of Limburg. The painting, Woman Carrying the Embers, was completed by ...

only that he came to art at an early age and embarked on a successful career as a still life painter. At some point, he adopted the name Torrentius, translating the Dutch word “beeck” (brook ...

The 8g ring was discovered in 1997 in Sumar in Friesland by the then-29-year-old treasure hunter Pieter de Jong, while he was using a metal detector ovv copyright I-OE 342.II The Dutch culture ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya is hosting the Dutch king and queen as allegations of human rights abuses are mounting in the East African country, with Kenyans writing hundreds of emails and ...

Spoken across the Netherlands, Flanders, Suriname and parts of the Caribbean, Dutch is a popular language with students and UK employers. With around eighty students on our programmes, we are the ...