Late last year we had pointed out the launching of a fundraiser at the National Portrait Gallery for the purchase of a Self-Portrait by Van Dyck painted the year before he died when living in England, at the court of Charles I. The work had sold (...)
Comparing is not enough. The Haarlem exhibition on Frans Hals, an "adoptive" native son, which attempts to associate the artist with 16th century Venetian painting and also with some of his contemporaries, is a perfect illustration of these (...)
In a press release issued on 19th March, the Real Academia de San Fernando confirmed the news published two days earlier by El Pais. A painting which until now had been considered a copy of Van Dyck painted by Mateo (...)
An exhibition consisting of works transferred from one museum for display in another can be justified in certain specific cases, for example when there are drawings which cannot be shown permanently on their conservation site or when the (...)