The Dutch Golden Age, beginning in 1588, is known for the art of Rembrandt, the invention of the microscope, and the spice ...

Progress in the golden age meant scientific advancement and religious toleration at home, but a devastating human cost abroad, borne by the peoples whom the Dutch conquered in war or transported ...

Per the National Gallery of Art (NGA), the Golden Age of Dutch Painting was “one of the ... economic powerhouse fueled a rise in the wealthy merchant class, creating a base of patrons who ...

In 1953, the French semiotician Roland Barthes wrote this about the cloth inspectors/merchants in his brilliant but short essay "The World as Object": In the Dutch Golden Age, [there are ...

A pair of paintings by Dutch Golden Age master Frans Hals, possibly depicting his own children, are returning to the Netherlands after more than a century overseas in the hands of private owners ...

The ‘Dutch Golden Age’ of painting was a period in the 17th century when everything Dutch was on top of the charts. The ‘Dutch Golden Age’ was the giver of masterpieces by some of the most ...

Two centuries later, artists of the Dutch Golden Age made these faces come alive with an expressive, characterful twist. This genre of smirks, pouts, glowers, and gapes was dubbed the “tronies.” ...