Art Stories
Christ at the Sea of Galilee Hung in America as a Tintoretto Until Scholars Traced It to a Dutchman Trained in Titian's Workshop
For decades the National Gallery of Art in Washington displayed Christ at the Sea of Galilee as a Tintoretto. In the 1990s, scholars traced the stormy canvas to Lambert Sustris,...
Christ at the Sea of Galilee Hung in America as a Tintoretto Until Scholars Traced It to a Dutchman Trained in Titian's Workshop
For decades the National Gallery of Art in Washington displayed Christ at the Sea of Galilee as a Tintoretto. In the 1990s, scholars traced the stormy canvas to Lambert Sustris,...
Winslow Homer Did Not Take Up Watercolor Seriously Until Age 37, and Boy with Anchor Came From That First Gloucester Summer of 1873
In June 1873, at age 37, Winslow Homer settled in Gloucester, Massachusetts and produced his first sustained series of watercolors, including Boy with Anchor. This article traces the twenty years...
Winslow Homer Did Not Take Up Watercolor Seriously Until Age 37, and Boy with Anchor Came From That First Gloucester Summer of 1873
In June 1873, at age 37, Winslow Homer settled in Gloucester, Massachusetts and produced his first sustained series of watercolors, including Boy with Anchor. This article traces the twenty years...
Munch's Melancholy Shows His Friend Jappe Nilssen Heartbroken Over a Married Woman, and Her Husband Praised the Painting in Print
Edvard Munch painted his friend Jappe Nilssen slumped on the beach at Åsgårdstrand, wrecked by his affair with the married Oda Krohg. Then her husband, painter Christian Krohg, praised the...
Munch's Melancholy Shows His Friend Jappe Nilssen Heartbroken Over a Married Woman, and Her Husband Praised the Painting in Print
Edvard Munch painted his friend Jappe Nilssen slumped on the beach at Åsgårdstrand, wrecked by his affair with the married Oda Krohg. Then her husband, painter Christian Krohg, praised the...
Jacob de Wit Faked Marble Reliefs in Paint So Convincingly That the Dutch Named the Illusion After Him, the Witje
Jacob de Wit (1695-1754) painted monochrome panels that imitated carved marble so convincingly the Dutch named the genre after him: the witje. This article traces the illusion from his Antwerp...
Jacob de Wit Faked Marble Reliefs in Paint So Convincingly That the Dutch Named the Illusion After Him, the Witje
Jacob de Wit (1695-1754) painted monochrome panels that imitated carved marble so convincingly the Dutch named the genre after him: the witje. This article traces the illusion from his Antwerp...
Pieter Huys Was Still Painting Hieronymus Bosch's Demons Decades After Bosch Died Because Antwerp Collectors Kept Demanding More
Hieronymus Bosch died in 1516, yet Pieter Huys built an entire Antwerp career on his demons, from his guild mastership in 1545 to his last dated work of 1577. This...
Pieter Huys Was Still Painting Hieronymus Bosch's Demons Decades After Bosch Died Because Antwerp Collectors Kept Demanding More
Hieronymus Bosch died in 1516, yet Pieter Huys built an entire Antwerp career on his demons, from his guild mastership in 1545 to his last dated work of 1577. This...
Experts Doubted This Van Gogh for Decades Until 2014 Research Confirmed the Terrace at the Moulin de Blute Fin Was Genuine All Along
Terrace and Observation Deck at the Moulin de Blute-Fin, painted by Van Gogh in Montmartre in 1887, spent decades under a cloud of scholarly doubt. In 2014, researchers from the...
Experts Doubted This Van Gogh for Decades Until 2014 Research Confirmed the Terrace at the Moulin de Blute Fin Was Genuine All Along
Terrace and Observation Deck at the Moulin de Blute-Fin, painted by Van Gogh in Montmartre in 1887, spent decades under a cloud of scholarly doubt. In 2014, researchers from the...