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 ...

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 (AP) — In the early 17th century, laughter was almost never captured on a painter's canvas. Frans Hals changed that. “He was not a sober painter,” said Friso Lammertse, co-curator of a major ...

Glass vials, insect pins, gelatin capsules–even human hair–make these insanely detailed recreations of famous artworks. Dutch Master portraiture from the 17th-Century gets a mind-blowing contemporary ...

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 ...