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What the queen means to Jewish tradition and to resisting tyranny and persecution—in the seventeenth century and today.
Rembrandt paints Balaam not just as a prophet, but as a carrier of prepackaged speech — someone who speaks on behalf of the Divine, but with no connection to what he says.
This summer’s big blockbuster, Superman, marks the latest installment of the Man of Steel — a character whose identity has ...
James Gunn, the director of Superman, has released new character posters featuring the villains ready to face the Man of Steel. See them here!
Movie posters from ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ starring Hannah Waddingham, Hayley Atwell, Tom Cruise, and Angela Bassett Paramount+ ...
The ‘FBI’ Seized a Stolen Rembrandt in a Gallery Raid; It Was a Movie Promotion Stunt This stunt, as absurd as it was, raises questions about the increasingly entangled relationship between ...
Rembrandt’s Esther is dressed in the regular attire of a Dutch woman, demonstrating Esther’s appeal to the masses. An oil painting by Gerrit van Honthorst, “Portrait of Elizabeth Stuart as Esther,” ...
Last year, Vasilis Marmatakis’s unsurprisingly inventive posters for the unsurprisingly inventive Poor Things dominated —and the film subsequently nabbed Best Actress, Best Production Design ...
In the 1600s the Netherlands established one of the world’s first art markets – but it couldn’t have happened without the economic boom spurred by the slave trade.
During the 1980s and 1990s, Ghanaian artists created vibrant hand-painted movie posters to promote Hollywood blockbuster films. These posters served as promotional material for mobile cinemas that ...
Art History What Makes Rembrandt So Great? A Look at 10 of His Most Iconic Works From 'Night Watch' to loving portraits of his wife, these are the paintings that define the Dutch Old Master.