We’ve heard the plaudits from the world of football for Kevin De Bruyne after news of his departure from Manchester City was ...

The search for the waters of eternal life has fascinated figures from Gilgamesh to the conquistadors to Hollywood studio ...

Rembrandt was a master of illusion ... painter’s mastery of the chiaroscuro technique that cast him as “the magician of light and shadow”; a skill that would allow him to employ perspective ...

Conservators at The Mauritshuis gallery in the Hague, Netherlands, say that three paintings in the museum’s collection initially attributed to Rembrandt van Rijn were probably made or copied by ...

A man sticks his head out of a window. On the sill below him, a tiny leaf threatens to fall. This painting by Rembrandt’s most successful pupil Samuel van Hoogstraten is the centrepiece of a new ...

As a young painter in Leiden, Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn signed his canvases with a monogram, but once he hit his stride in Amsterdam he began signing his work as we ...

Visitors eager to catch a glimpse of Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch” at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam may be surprised to find the large oil painting looking more like a work in progress than a ...

After five years of intensive scientific analysis, The Night Watch by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn is finally ready to undergo a landmark restoration. The multi-year Operation Night Watch ...

Susannah and the Elders, an exercise in biblical voyeurism that has been painted by Tintoretto, Rubens and Rembrandt ... “I am a magician,” he says. “A magician brings dead things to ...

Chemists have for the first time established how Rembrandt applied special arsenic sulfide pigments to create a 'golden' paint. Chemists at the Rijksmuseum and the University of Amsterdam (UvA ...

In his essay “The Artist Grows Old,” the great art critic Sir Kenneth Clark wrote about painters—like Titian, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, and Cézanne—who produced their best work at the end ...

(gentle suspenseful music) - [Curator] Rubens, Rembrandt, Michelangelo ... Curator] Was your Mr. Davies a magician? - I don't think so. - Then he couldn't have spirited anything away.