His textile banners salute centuries of art history, from medieval tapestries and 16th-century Dutch still lives to the semi-abstract way Matisse painted goldfish. They’re also autobiographical.
Still life is an art form whose popularity stretches back to the roots of human civilization. Depictions of food often feature prominently in wall paintings in ancient Egyptian tombs and are common in ...
This ewer, which seems almost to melt like a wax candle, appears as a exemplar of curiosity in at least 20 Dutch Golden Age still lifes. The auricular style was an ingredient in 18th-century Rococo ...
But two hundred years before the rise of literary realism, Dutch painters had already made an art of the everyday--pictures that served as a compelling model for the novelists who followed. By the mid ...
Sprung into stardom at the tail end of the 17th century when Dutch art was at its peak, Ruysch (1664-1750) made her name painting highly specialised still-lifes, leaving behind a remarkable oeuvre ...
In honor of Dr. Adolph Goldschmidt, of the University of Berlin, and visiting lecturer at Harvard on Fine Arts and the History of German Culture, and Exhibition of seventeenth century Dutch Art is ...
Like the triptych painting The Garden of Earthly Delights by 15th- and 16th- century Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch, the aesthetic of the Mondrian is good and evil. The main hall of the hotel plays ...
Dutch Police Early Saturday morning ... The authorities said it was part of an elaborate effort to break into the art and history museum and steal some of its treasures. Among the artifacts ...