The Kimbell Art Museum has acquired Jacob van Ruisdael’s Edge of a Forest with a Grainfield."; The Kimbell Art Museum has bought a great Dutch landscape to go with its great Dutch seascape. The ...
As their country’s ships explored the New World, Dutch painters discovered that the sea, unlike human subjects, never hides its moods. Boiling waves tossed ships and their crews, swallowing them or ...
As their country’s ships explored the New World, Dutch painters discovered that the sea, unlike human subjects, never hides its moods. Boiling waves tossed ships and their crews, swallowing them or ...
"View of Scheveningen Sands," before and after conservators uncovered a beached whale in the painting. When art conservators in the United Kingdom were cleaning a 17th-century Dutch seascape, they ...
As their country's ships explored the New World, Dutch painters discovered that the sea, unlike human subjects, never hides its moods. Boiling waves tossed ships and their crews, swallowing them or ...
MARBLEHEAD — It's a big world, but not so big that a country's rivals are willing to share it. The Dutch found that out starting around 1600. One of the smallest European nations, they'd nonetheless ...
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When art conservators in the United Kingdom were cleaning a 17th-century Dutch seascape, they found a surprise: an image of a beached whale that had been hidden for at least 150 years. Until recently, ...
Boiling waves tossed ships and their crews, swallowing them or dashing them ashore. When calm, the sea provided safe passage to prosperous trade routes or exotic lands. Like a vast mirror, the ...