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I Tried a Luxury French Facial Surrounded by 17th-Century Art
From the moment I entered the lobby, the property felt like a more intimate version of the Louvre, housing 6,000 art and furniture pieces from the owner’s collection. Not to mention, it’s one ...
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Eagle-Eyed Experts Say They’ve Solved the Mystery of a Missing Masterpiece—Half a Century After It Was Stolen
Brueghel's famous 17th-century painting "Woman Carrying the Embers" vanished from a Polish museum in 1974. Fifty years later, ...
Cleveland Jewish News5d
Rare 17th-century Esther Scroll returns to Ferrara for Purim show
The National Library of Israel is lending the 400-year-old artifact to the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah ...
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Rijksmuseum gives place of honour to newly acquired still life by Golden Age artist Maria van Oosterwijck
Jenny Reynaerts, the senior curator of paintings and chair of the Women of the Rijksmuseum, tells The Art Newspaper that Friso Lammertse, the museum’s curator of 17th-century art, who oversaw ...
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Basohli School, 17th Century
The Basohli School, 17th Century comprised a group of artists active in this region in the period. Works identified as being by this group appear regularly at auction.
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Boston art museum will return 17th-century painting to heirs of its pre-WWII Jewish owner
(JTA) —The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston will return a 17th-century painting in its collection to the heirs of a Jewish collector from whom the painting was stolen during the Holocaust.
Imagination Over Documentation: A Fresh Look at Dutch Art
Award-winning art critic Laura Cumming challenges the common perception of Dutch art as mere photographic reproduction. In ...
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KS3 Art and Design: 17th Century - 19th Century: 5 influential female artists
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 ...
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To Indigenous people in 17th century Peru, a Madonna image evoked traditional Inca deity
Our Lady of the Rosary of Guápulo is a devotional image venerated in the outskirts of Quito, Ecuador, and was promoted by a ...