The Kingdom of the Netherlands appointed George S. Abrams as Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau. He received the royal decoration in recognition of his important contribution to the study of Dutch [...] Read More
Museum News
The RKD digitally publishes ‘Counting Vermeer: Using Weave Maps to Study Vermeer’s Canvases’
The RKD has made available for download their publication on the cutting-edge technology of employing weave map software and automated thread counts to better understand the painting supports of [...] Read More
Joslyn Museum Reinstalls its European Galleries
The Joslyn Art Museum has opened its reinstalled European galleries. It also acquired two new Dutch works for its European collection: Landscape with a Mill by Jan van Goyen (1634) and Portrait of [...] Read More
New Attribution for the Prado’s Apollo and Daphne
Apollo and Daphne, one of the paintings in the Torre de la Parada series in the Prado, designed by Rubens but executed by a number of Antwerp artists, recently has been assigned to Theodoor van [...] Read More
Putto Comes Home to Leuven
M-Museum Leuven has brought back to Leuven an alabaster putto by Cornelis Floris II (1513-1575) after 221 years. The statue once decorated the Sacrament tower in the Celestine Monastery in Heverlee. [...] Read More
Rubens Portrait of Buckingham Rediscovered
The “lost” portrait of the Duke of Buckingham by Peter Paul Rubens was rediscovered in Glasgow Museum’s collection, on display at Pollok House. The painting was believed to be a copy of a [...] Read More