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 (...)
Village fairs, carnivals, banquets, weddings, religious festivals... An unbridled joy is on display at the Frans Hals Museum currently exhibiting some forty-five paintings of the Dutch Golden Age on the theme of celebrating dear to Jan Steen (...)
The Dutch police have recovered five paintings which had been stolen in 2002 from the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem.