MFA removes 20 Dutch and Flemish paintings from its collection
When the Museum of Fine Arts has sold works of art in its collection recently it’s often been with an eye toward acquiring a ...
The Art Newspaper5h
MFA Boston's Old Master paintings could bring up to $3.8m at auction
The deaccessioned works, to be offered at Christie's in New York, include 17 pieces by Dutch and Flemish artists from the ...
omanobserver8d
Two-sided Van Dyck work, Einstein letters on sale at Christie's Classic Week
An Anthony van Dyck portrait of a horse with a hidden landscape on the reverse will go under the hammer next week during ...
Country Life8d
The grand master ‘paintings’ that are actually the most exquisite floral photographs you’ll ever see
Harald Altmaier’s photographs of floral tableaux, as colossal in effort as in scale, recall 17th-century Dutch still lifes, ...
The Boston Globe15d
A Cherokee artist’s view of the American landscape
It explores the friction between the idealized visions of a cadre of 19th-century American Romantic ... the overwrought grandiosity of early landscape painting was an entrepreneurial gambit ...
Kimbell exhibition showcases the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century
The 125 finely made artworks currently on loan to the Kimbell Art Museum from Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts — mostly oil ...
The New York Times22d
DUTCH MASTERS ON VIEW.; Paintings by Mauve, Israels, and Others at Scott & Fowle's Gallery.
A few farseeing and discriminating collectors, such as Staats Forbes of London, furnished about the only market for these modern Dutch painters for many years. View Full Article in Timesmachine ...
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'Masterpiece' 17th Century atlas goes on display
One of the world's "finest and rarest" 17th Century atlases will be put on show ... by Andreas Cellarius - described as a "masterpiece of Dutch cartography" by the National Trust - will be ...
Metro24d
The 17th century £21,000,000 diamond at the centre of a royal family court battle
The 17th-century, 70 carat gemstone ... an investment company owned by art collector Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani, a cousin of Qatar’s ruler. Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah – whose $400m ...
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Sandy Rendel elegantly converts a barn into a simple house in the British countryside
The surrounding gardens have been developed over the past decade by the clients in close collaboration with the Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf ... including Concept Car Design, 21st Century ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs29d
Cat lovers rejoice: Moscow archaeologists discover 17th century tiles depicting a cat with a crown
Moscow archaeologists have unearthed 17th-century red clay stove tiles depicting ... Muscovites willingly expressed their love for these pets in visual art. Specialists collected an extensive ...
The Local29d
Electrician finds 17th-century frescoes behind Rome villa's false ceiling
Photo by Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP Rosy-cheeked cherubs surrounded by hues of blue, red and gold have lost none of their brilliance in 17th-century frescoes discovered behind a false ceiling at Rome's ...