Art heists always capture the imagination—just ask officials at the Musée du Louvre—and the theft of a Rembrandt in 1975 was no exception. On 14 April 1975, Myles Connor entered the Museum of Fine ...

Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669) Self-Portrait, Wearing a Flat Cap, c. 1642 Etching, state 1(3) Plate: 3 11/16 x 2 7/16 in. (9.4 x 6.2 cm) Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam, 15 B26, NHD 210 An ...

Simon Schama explores the final works of Rembrandt van Rijn prior to the artist’s death in 1669. Historian Simon Schama explores the final works of Rembrandt van Rijn in the years leading up to the ...

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Started in 2003 by Thomas Kaplan and his wife, Daphne Recanati Kaplan, the Leiden Collection is the largest private collection of Dutch Golden Age art, and the only Johannes Vermeer in private hand.

Picture a darkly-lit hall, its plum-colored walls lined with dozens of paintings, all masterpieces from the Dutch Golden Age — Rembrandt, Hals, even a Vermeer, almost all framed in thick, black wood.

Rembrandt is best known for his shadowy paintings. His 1642 canvas The Night Watch is a masterclass in dynamic composition, while the self-portraits he made throughout his life chart his aging ...

Rembrandt’s “The Unconscious Patient (Allegory of Smell)” is one of his earliest paintings, created around 1624–1625 when he was a teenager. It portrays a fainted young man being revived with smelling ...

Ever dreamed of owning a real Rembrandt? In today's art market, anyone could become an owner — not just the millionaires. But there's a catch: You only own a share of the painting. The announcement ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X "Self-portrait, Wearing a Flat Cap," Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1642. Credit: "Rembrandt: masterpieces ...

AMSTERDAM (AP) — It didn't exactly take dogged detective work for an art sleuth in Amsterdam to solve a canine conundrum dating back to the Dutch Golden Age. Anne Lenders, a curator at the city's ...

Jewish persecution and Jewish self-protection, not to mention Jewish paranoia, the relations of Jews and Persians, the morality of Jewish reprisals for Jewish persecution, even the impulsive acts of a ...