One of Hals’ least obviously laughing “laughing” portraits, The Laughing Cavalier is perhaps his best-known work. Given its popular nickname in the late 1880s, the portrait of the smiling ...

Alte Pinakothek Museum is home to over 700 masterpieces by Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt— in one of the most ...

Auerbach found his home in London after his parents sent him to Britain in 1939 under the Kindertransport scheme. This ...

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The Renaissance and early modern period were both challenging and rewarding for women artists. In this period, a number of ...

118 x 97 cm. (46.5 x 38.2 in.) ...

Fall in London brings with it a certain number of uncertainties; mostly will it ever stop raining and when will we see the ...

Lost, stolen, or simply hidden, treasures totalling billions remain missing around the world to this day - from the Crown ...

Their paintings have included jack-o'-lanterns ... He constructed an 1897 village in a hayfield on land owned by former ...

84.4 x 65.9 cm. (33.2 x 25.9 in.) ...

Sara's portrait was probably painted on the occasion of her marriage to Claes in 1622, aged 29. Similar to Hals' other wedding portraits of women, she is wearing a richly embroidered stomacher. Her ...