The recent discovery of an art forger's workshop reminds us of the long history of fraudulent artworks – here are the simple ...
In 1990 thieves disguised as police stole 13 artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Their empty frames have been ...
Queen Esther was a figure of inspiration to Jews who had fled from oppressive regimes. In the Netherlands, she became a ...
Jean-Antoine Houdon’s six-foot-tall sculpture Diana the Huntress (1776–95) spent much of the past five years in a box while construction workers hammered away nearby. With the arrival of the Salon du ...
a Rembrandt masterwork famously stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in one of the most notorious unsolved art thefts in history. On March 18, 1990, two men disguised as Boston police ...
A fellow Dutchman, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669) is widely regarded as one of the greatest artists of all time.
Keep in mind that there are no Rembrandt paintings – only etchings – much to the chagrin of some recent museumgoers, though there are paintings by Rembrandt's contemporaries, such as Pieter ...