Rembrandt, Old Master Superstar
Living in the Golden Age of Dutch and Flemish art. “Mom, does dad really need to be a painter?” In 1630 Rembrandt’s etched
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Where are the Women Old Masters?
One suggestion is that they are buried beneath a mountain of good and not so good male Old Masters; the truth is, female
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Planning your Museum Visit
DURING THE BOOM YEARS OF THE 1980-90s. there was a vast expansion in the size of art museums the world over. It ranged
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Collaborative Art
VERY FEW ARTISTS WHO VENTURE into the field of politics, be they ever so famous, emerge unscathed. The Greek sculptor Phidias (c.480 –
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Caravaggio: mad, bad, and dangerous to know
Mad, Bad, and Dangerous Artists THAT MOURNFUL PHRASE, uttered by Lady Caroline Lamb to describe her spasimante Lord George Byron is one, had
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Travels with My Art
SHIPPING YOUR PAINTINGS if you are an artist exhibiting your work at a gallery some distance from your home or even abroad can
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Rembrandt’s Dark Secrets
Art historians – perennially on the outside looking in – have, starting with Giorgio Vasari in 1550, loved to give the Old Masters
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Caring for your Paintings
Is your contemporary painting more temporary than you think? Is the title to an early 1960s art-conservation guide that has always amused the
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The Great Art Robbery
The siege of Jerusalem bas-relief in the Rome, Arch of Titus Andrea Mantegna 1486 – 1505 The Triumph of Caesar, Royal Collection Hampton
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Restoring Old Masters
The dark arts and sciences of restoration are midwives nowadays always present during the preservation of paintings in personal private and public collections.
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