It's called Officer and Laughing Girl. She's holding a little glass of white wine. It's a 1621 map of Holland and West ...

Twas night before Christmas when all through the de Young Museum, not a person was stirring, not even a mouse... until ...

In 1975, industrialist Norton Simon took over the critically acclaimed but financially troubled Pasadena Art Museum. Simon spent decades building a food production empire, starting with a small juice ...

I watched in horror as a terrible storm in the Mediterranean dashed a ship against a rocky coast, forcing its crew and ...

While everything else feels like it’s in a downward spiral, Miami’s art scene is still on the come-up.

One of the most common human gestures, the pointing finger, appears frequently in Old Master paintings as a guiding cue.

The Art Institute Chicago are putting on a special display from tomorrow (17th Dec) onwards of featuring their fully ...

Some historical figures achieve fame and fortune in life. Others owe their success thanks to their untimely deaths. Carel Fabritius, Rembrandt's most promising pupil, falls somewhere in between the ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The landmark Dutch museum that holds some of the most famous paintings by Rembrandt and Vermeer announced Thursday that it is planning a new branch in the southern city ...

In the 1650s, Rembrandt was in serious financial hot water. His high-priced commissions were drying up, creditors were chasing him for payments on his house, and he was a shopaholic, buying art and ...

“Portrait of a Girl,” a 17th-century work believed to be by the Dutch master, had been hiding in a home in Maine. By Claire Moses The attic, long a repository of discarded toys and the like, can ...

The smallest formal portraits made by Rembrandt have been put on show at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands after being rediscovered earlier this year. Small, oval images of “Jan and ...