The British painter has dedicated her career to depicting human flesh, especially that of women, with deep empathy.

Get ready, artists! The Princes Czartoryski Museum in Krakow, Poland, is launching an international art contest that will ...

Researchers studied an ancient granite pebble naturally shaped like a face, marked with a red ochre fingerprint. It happens ...

Throughout the history of art, great masters have captured not only beauty in their works, but also secrets. Some did it to ...

Bredius referred to his acquisition as “probably the most interesting painting of Rembrandt’s father”, known as Harmen Gerritsz van Rijn. Tronie of an Old Man (around 1630), described as ...

Rembrandt: the first great ‘selfie’ artistOpens in new window ] Tronie of an Old Man (1630) remains in doubt because the painting is too fragile to restore, with woodworm damage that appears ...

Although he is hardly known nowadays, during the 17 th century, Van Hoogstraten was even more successful than Rembrandt. He travelled Europe, wowing Ferdinand III, Archduke of Austria, in Vienna with ...

Rembrandt’s paintings were colorful and theatrical at ... or adopting some form of character. Here the 53-year-old man is pared down to the essentials, in an expressively painted and dark ...

Shielded from the public by glass panels and staring intently through microscopes, a team of specialists has started work restoring ... in 1975 after a man slashed the painting 12 times with ...

A new book about the relationship between the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn and the Jews points to the peril for Jewish art lovers of wishful ... s “Portrait of an Old Jew.” ...

Rembrandt made this journey into his future by boat and ... when he was already 71 (he believed he got better with age and described himself as ‘old man crazy to paint’). The mountain is there in the ...