The Netherlands' Rijksmuseum says a condom believed to be made around 1830 from a sheep's appendix, "depicts both the playful ...

Baroque art could be surprisingly risqué ... land reclaimed from the sea using ingenious windmills -- celebrated Dutch industriousness. And in the flat Netherlands, a landscape was also a ...

A pair of paintings by Dutch Golden Age master Frans Hals that possibly depict his own children are returning to the ...

Dutch art contrasts notably with the Flemish Baroque painting made during the same period in neighboring Flanders (i.e., the Southern Netherlands, now Belgium), which remained part of the Catholic ...

The winners were displayed in a replica frame in the exact spot where “Girl with a Pearl Earring” usually hangs, between two portraits by Dutch Baroque ... works of art on its Instagram ...

A specialist on Renaissance and Baroque European art, Amy Golahny has published on Rembrandt, Dutch art, and the interactions between artists of northern Europe and Italy. She has also published on ...

We marvel at Baroque’s over-the-top churches, palaces, bubbly fountains, and theatric art. Forged in Europe’s religious struggles, Baroque art inspired the faithful and dazzled the masses.

When the Spaniards brought baroque to the New World, it blossomed in fresh and wonderful variations. Pal Kelemen, Hungarian-born art historian, has spent nearly three years tracing baroque’s ...

Vibrant, dramatic and gripping, Baroque paintings from the 16th and 17th centuries have gone on show in the Hong Kong Museum of Art’s “The Road to the Baroque” exhibition. The 40 paintings ...

He chose to focus on Florentine Baroque art to increase scholarship of it. “I decided this was something I could give to the world of art history,” he says. The Rollins exhibition, accompanied ...