Girl with a pearl earring

Thought to have been painted in 1665, there is much mystery surrounding this painting, both in the identity of the sitter and the painter himself. Could the girl with the pearl earring be Magdalena, t

Exaggerating her beetling monobrow and wispy dark moustache in self-portraits, the artist Frida Kahlo was a female force to be reckoned with, unafraid to pour her heart onto the canvas. Only last autu

There is much to admire in Andrew Graham-Dixon’s study of Vermeer—but not its tendency to overinterpret the old master’s work “Johannes Vermeer is the most laconic of the Dutch old masters,” Andrew Gr

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Michaelina Wautier is one of the most compelling rediscoveries in Baroque painting. Working in 17th-century Brussels, she tackled subjects usually reserved for men, producing still lifes, portraits an

Exhibition of the week Anna Ancher: Painting Light ...