Are Tronies the Historical Precursor to the Emoji?
9 March 2024 • Charlotte Rickards
As humans, we’re evolutionarily drawn to read the faces of others. We scan for eyebrows that lift or furrow; we… Read More
Tag: Rembrandt
Rediscovered Rembrandt portraits on show at Rijksmuseum
14 December 2023 • Mark Westall
The Rijksmuseum has rediscovered two small portraits by Rembrandt.
New 30,000 sq ft digital immersive arts experience to open in London this Autumn
30 May 2022 • Mark Westall
The UK’s biggest and London’s first permanent digital immersive arts experience to open in Marble Arch this Autumn. Covering 30,000… Read More
Hidden sketch discovered under Rembrandt’s The Night Watch.
8 December 2021 • Mark Westall
A previously hidden sketch has been discovered during examinations of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch. This allows us to look over the… Read More
Greatest Painters: Top 5 Of All Time
27 May 2021 • Gaston La-Gaffe
The world of art has been providing amazing pieces for thousands of years. When it comes to determining who the… Read More
The Top 5 Exhibitions to see in London this Summer
20 July 2020 • Tabish Khan
The Top 5 Exhibitions to see in London this Summer include Isolation, energy, birth, Rembrandt and masculinity.
Portrait special
5 March 2020 • Paul Carey-Kent
It’s easy enough to ignore the genre of portrait painting in the age of the camera, but the best examples do plenty apart from that. David Hockney carries on the tradition in his new show at the National Portrait Gallery, but it isn’t hard to find interesting portraits on elsewhere. Here are three…
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this Summer
21 July 2019 • Tabish Khan
A cathedral in Ghana, a scorpion / sphinx, Rembrandt, graffiti, urban exploring and stars.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London in May
12 May 2019 • Tabish Khan
Dalston, miniatures, Rembrandt, flooding, nature, colour and navigation.
€160-million, newly restored Rembrandt unveiled for High Society
5 March 2018 • Mark Westall
The Rijksmuseum, is presenting High Society. Over thirty-five life-size portraits of powerful princes, eccentric aristocrats and fabulously wealthy citizens by the great masters of art history, including Cranach, Veronese, Velázquez, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Sargent, Munch and Manet.
ITV to screen Great Art.
11 December 2017 • Mark Westall
This January, ITV will show Great Art, a five-part series exploring the life and work of the world’s most celebrated artists.
The Top 6 Art Exhibitions to see this week in London
30 July 2017 • Tabish Khan
Gruesome puppetry, dancing, a great wave, rubens, rembrandt, a new gallery and British painting.
The ‘Next’ Rembrandt has been unveiled in Amsterdam
6 April 2016 • Mark Westall
A portrait of a man in black 17th-century clothing with a white collar and a hat was unveiled in front of a packed auditorium.
Is America’s greatest art heist about to be solved?
10 August 2015 • Mark Westall
There’s no romanticising the $500m Stewart Gardner Museum robbery of 1990. It was an attack on world culture. Could new footage of the robbers casing the joint help retrieve the masterpieces?
Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 90: ‘The Colour in Rembrandt’
14 January 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
Rembrandt: Juno, 1662-5 Rembrandt is known, of course, for his crepuscular tone and his ability to draw symbolic and emotional… Read More
Tabish’s Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London over Christmas
22 December 2014 • Tabish Khan
This weeks top 5 features architectural photography, Rembrandt, Constable, witches and crashing waves.
The best Art exhibitions to catch up on this Christmas
20 December 2014 • Mark Westall
Robert Clark and Skye Sherwin suggest the best exhibitions to catch over the Christmas period, from Rembrandt’s nudes to the Turner Prize
The best art books of 2014
7 December 2014 • Staff
The year saw contemporary art stars prove thoughtful in print while Whistler and Rembrandt drew perceptive analysis
National Gallery : Random Room Roulette # 3
15 December 2013 • Mark Westall
Every week Kimberley will attempt to combine her knowledge into contrasting aspects of artistic studies: History of Art and Contemporary Art and Theory. Her challenge = to pick a room of the National Gallery, London at random and find a painting there, whether it be Gothic, Renaissance, Impressionist or Medieval in style, to analyse using contemporary theory.
Review: Houghton Revisited masterpieces from The Hermitage at Houghton Hall and Gardens.
30 August 2013 • Mark Westall
Robert Walpole is recognised as Britain’s first Prime Minister but he was also known for amassing an impressive art collection in his ancestral home of Houghton Hall.
Self-portrait bequeathed to National Trust is identified as lost Rembrandt
18 March 2013 • Mark Westall
Painting of artist, worth up to £20m, was thought to be later copy
Richard Wright’s stellar art shines next to Rembrandt at the Rijksmuseum
15 March 2013 • Mark Westall
The British artist’s new ceiling paintings featuring a vast network of black stars display a radical vision that fits with Dutch tradition
£2.5 million stolen Rembrandt recovered
13 March 2013 • Mark Westall
Serbian police have recovered a painting by 17th-century Dutch master Rembrandt
Oiled on canvas: the art of intoxication
31 December 2012 • Mark Westall
From Rembrandt to Degas, learn from the masters about the pleasures and perils of the demon drink this New Year’s Eve