Rembrandt van Rijn

Even after 20 years, biggest art heist in history rattles Boston investigators It remains the most tantalizing art heist mystery in the world. In the early hours of March 18, 1990, two thieves walked into Boston's elegant Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum disguised ...

This undated photograph released by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum shows the etching "Self-Portrait" by Rembrandt, which was one of more than a dozen works of art burglars stole during a 1990 heist in Boston. It remains the most tantalizing art heist ...

<div><p>An American casino magnate yesterday paid a record &amp;#163;6.9m at auction in London for a Rembrandt self-portrait that had been hidden by overpainting for more than three centuries. </p><p>The auctioneer Sotheby's said it was the highest price ever paid for a self-portrait ...

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<div id="subtitle">Dutch study says Rembrandt's "Night Watch" was part of a series by leading artists</div><div><p>"Night Watch," one of Rembrandt's most famous paintings, was part of a series of portraits by leading Dutch artists of his day, and was meant to be displayed ...

&lt;p&gt;How to Get the Most Out of Your Oil Paintings&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;By Ralph Serpe&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Learning how to become a good oil painter is a difficult undertaking. In fact, it is more than likely one of the most difficult painting mediums ...

<div><p> Mark Glazebrook asks why Rembrandt and Caravaggio have to share a show Ihope that I am second to none in my fondness for Dutch art galleries - normally, at least. A candlelight evening in the Franz Hals museum, over 40 years ...

<div><p> The seemingly unstoppable rise of the exhibition catalogue happily does not mean that nothing else gets published, and my selection of glossy delights to drive away the Boxing Day blues has more than its fair share of goodies that were not ...

<div><p> Rembrandt: Quest of a Genius Kulturforum, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, until 5 November</p><p> It's strange that while Britain has gone fairly mad over Mozart's 250th anniversary, with vulgarities ranging from Mozart for Babies on Classic FM to Mozart mugs on coffee mugs, ...

<div><p>Cognoscenti may dismiss the list as the work of a country that does not know much about art but knows what it likes on a nice birthday card.</p><p>Populists may hail it as a triumph of popular taste over critics, conceptualists and postmodernists. ...