Frans Hals is one of art history’s most recognizable names, and painter of some of its most recognizable faces. One characteristic of Hals’ work which has set him apart from his contemporaries and ...
A rare collection of 16th-century damask silks hangs in a gallery of the Frans Hals Museum in the Dutch city of Haarlem. These cloths, often referred to as “white gold,” are so delicate and difficult ...
AMSTERDAM (AP) — In the early 17th century, laughter was almost never captured on a painter's canvas. Frans Hals changed that. “He was not a sober painter,” said Friso Lammertse, co-curator of a major ...
The Toledo Museum of Art is one of the nation’s best galleries. It has a superlative collection and does intelligent, topical shows. I saw its newest show, Frans Hals Portraits: A Family Reunion, not ...
"The people, they often laugh, and that’s very remarkable in the 17th century — that they smile or even laugh, which was hardly done," he added Tuesday at a preview of the exhibition. The show that ...
Frans Hals, "The Lute Player" (before 1623–24), oil on canvas; Musée du Louvre, Paris (© RMN-Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre) / Mathieu Rabeau) LONDON — While visiting the National Gallery’s monographic ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Paintings by celebrated Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, ranging from portraits done in the 1600s to genre scenes, are the focus of a new exhibition at the Metropolitan ...
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