Rembrandt

Jacob van Ruisdael landscape painting of a windmill
Beyond Rembrandt: 7 Other Noteworthy Dutch Old Masters
While Rembrandt and Vermeer remain perhaps the most famous painters of the era, there are a plentitude of other Dutch Golden Age artists worth remembering.
Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, c. 1503–1506. wikimedia commons
What's in a Name: 6 Retitled Paintings
Many famous paintings have gone by different names over the years. And the reasons as to why this has happened can be fascinating.
Nancy Dorman and Stanley Mazaroff Center for the Study of Prints, Drawings and Photographs rendering. Quinn Evans Architects.
New BMA Matisse & Drawings Study Centers to Boost Access to Collections
On December 12, the Baltimore Museum of Art will invite the public in to two new study centers—The Ruth R. Marder Center for Matisse Studies and The Nancy Dorman and Stanley Mazaroff Center for the…
Raphaelle Peale, A Dessert, 1814.
Reframed: Feasts Depicted Throughout Art History
Museum-goers, this author included, are often guilty of walking past still life paintings of food, dismissing them as dull and anodyne. Yet, taking in the context of when they were created, these…
Still from This is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist. Snapshot of the crime scene in the Dutch Room at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Empty frames, crime scene tape and what appears to be trash litter the floor.
Unsolved Gardner Heist the Focus of Thrilling Netflix Documentary
Today, Netflix globally releases This Is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist, a four-part series that delves into the unsolved robbery of Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the…
Old Master paintings removed from the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace for the first time in almost 45 years in preparation for landmark exhibition
The Masterpieces Rarely Seen Outside Buckingham Palace
For the first time in forty-five years, the Royal Collection is being rehung in a new location.
close up of the face of a Botticelli portrait of a young man with shoulder-length strawberry blonde hair
Is this Sandro Botticelli Worth $80 Million?
Experts are anticipating a record-breaking sale in January when a rare Sandro Botticelli portrait comes to auction.
Rembrandt painting of an older white man from the chest up, with his eyes cast down
Ashmolean Museum Finds Rembrandt in Storage
Ashmolean curators decided to reexamine a neglected painting in the Ashmolean’s own storage, once thought to be an original Rembrandt, now discredited.