Now, four years later, one of those works has been returned: A Rocky Coast, With Soldiers Studying a Plan, a 17th-century landscape painting by Salvator Rosa. According to a statement from the ...

Following the release of the US president-elect's official portrait, an expert reveals how scouring the pages of art history can help decode its meaning.

So it has been to a large degree with the art of France in the 17th century—a century that for a long time seemed too staid and static for modern tastes. Since World War II, museums on both ...

(JTA) —The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston will return a 17th-century painting in its collection to the heirs of a Jewish collector from whom the painting was stolen during the Holocaust.

Under the painting of a Spanish sculptor is the outline of a woman, according to new infrared images. The artwork will be ...

has been identified as a rare and highly important 17th century masterpiece by Flemish artist Jacob Jordaens - a pupil of Peter Paul Rubens who dominated painting in Flanders in the mid-17th century.

An extensive exhibition dedicated to the Dutch artist highlights her beautifully detailed still-lifes. But do these paintings ...

Baart from the institute responded. “I have the honour to inform you that your painting dates indeed from the 17th century. However this painting is certainly not Dutch, but Italian. Probably ...

Artist Marc Dennis renders lush still lifes that layer glossy bubbles, insects, and birds atop fleeting imagery.

The closest echo in art history for such a fiercely furrowed, lock-eyed, and, yes, trumpant glare is an out-of-the-way portrait from the paintbrush of the 17th-Century Italian Baroque artist ...