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Painting Found Gathering Dust In A Connecticut Barn For More Than A Century Sells At Auction For $7 Million
Sotheby's chairman George Wachter heard about a painting that had been gathering dust in the attic of a Connecticut barn for ...
Fake news and real cannibalism: a cautionary tale from the Dutch Golden Age
Fake news is also old news – 350 years ago, it brought down the Dutch Republic in a frenzy of political violence distinctly ...
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This 17th-Century Dutch Painting Was Rescued From a Dusty Barn Attic in Connecticut. It Just Sold for More Than $7 Million
Painted in 1666, "View of Olinda, Brazil, With Ruins of the Jesuit Church" is a masterpiece by Frans Post, one of the first ...
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Pair of portraits by Dutch master Frans Hals return to the Netherlands
In 2015, the Netherlands and France jointly bought a pair of works by another 17th century Dutch master, Rembrandt van Rijn, and swap the paintings every five years. The life-sized portraits of ...
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Pair of portraits by Dutch master Frans Hals return to the Netherlands
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A pair of paintings by Dutch Golden Age master Frans Hals that possibly depict his own children are returning to the Netherlands after more than a century overseas ...