Pollution particles found in Young Woman seated at a Virginal, owned by the Rembrandt collector Thomas Kaplan, are helping to ...

The 17th-century oil painting depicts a peasant woman holding tongs with hot coals in one hand and a bucket of water in the ...

from the 17th Century to the end of the 19th Century. These clips are taken from the BBC series The Britain that Women Made. Suitable for: Art and Design and History at KS3 in England, Wales and ...

Florencia Campetella, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, on Maria Sibylla Merian - 17th century entomologist ... on insects in the 18th century was such that Goethe praised Merian for her ...

A 17th-century painting looted by Nazis from the home of a Jewish Belgian art collector is being returned to his family by Tate Britain. The government’s Spoliation Advisory Panel recommended the ...

A cast-aside painting in the style of famed 17th century Dutch master Pieter Brueghel the Younger — which long hung hidden behind the door of a home in northern France — is the real deal.

On the eve of leaving the city for good, an English art dealer found himself captivated by a 17th-century apartment ... he bumped into an older woman. “Nicholas, how lovely to see you ...

Kaplan recently had the Vermeer examined and conserved with strict instructions to keep the intervention subtle. "I want to ...