Are there inconsistencies between the current Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, exhibition of the 17th century Flemish artist Michaelina Wautier and the catalog accompanying the show? Catalogs are, of ...
The exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts will include her masterpiece “The Triumph of Bacchus” as well as the recently ...
This ain’t your mama’s Messiah. An eagle-eyed art trader in Austria bought a painting of Jesus Christ — and discovered a secret portrait of Jesus hidden underneath that was covered up during ...
Beantown has become New New Amsterdam, with the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston nearly doubling its Dutch and Flemish holdings, adding 114 donations, promised gifts, and loans from two collecting ...
Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts never owned a Vermeer, but it has something even rarer, a painting Vermeer copied in two of his own paintings. Dirck van Baburen’s lascivious and satirical “The Procuress” ...
Researchers suspect that a painting bought in 1970 for £65 might be the handiwork of Anthony van Dyck. Featured here is an example of a similar painting, Portrait of Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of ...
BOSTON — How do great art museums develop their collections? There’s an inclination to think it all took place in the distant past. In fact, of course, it’s an ongoing process. Occasionally museums ...
Big-bearded William Morris, who did some of the first thinking about industry’s impact on art, was fond of pointing out that the word “manufacturer” had lost all if its original meaning (hand-maker).
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