Hendrick van der Burch. Dutch Interior, c. 1660. Of late I have thought on this painting a truly great deal. As mos...

Hello, all! We'd like to share with you an interview that we recently completed with Hunter Braithwaite, a former student of ours from...

Gerrit Van Honthorst. Margareta Maria de Roodere, 1652. In our last post I shared a delightful painting by Joachim von Sandrart, showing a ...

Joachim von Sandrart. February, 1642 Often in our academic lives (Jan will agree!) we must take time away from important tasks to consider ...

Pieter de Hooch, Portrait of a Family in a Courtyard in Delft (Detail), 1658-60. Friends, I have positively itched to tell you of this paint...

Jan Steen. The Feast of St. Nicholas, 1656. Friends, friends! How we have been away, Jan and I, busying ourselves with obligations of writ...

Pieter Jansz van Asch. Self Portrait with Dio LP, c. 1648. It is no secret, readers, that I am almost overfond (if I can admit such) of the ...

Aert de Gelder, Self Portrait with Escher, c. 1686. Welcome back, friends! I have much to tell you — most of it having to do with my newly a...

Cornelis Bega. Woman Playing Guitar Hero, 1664-65. Colleagues! I have much for which to atone: let me preface first, for my own sake (and so...

Jan de Bray. The Governors of the Guild of St. Luke, Haarlem, 1675. This painting, while credited to Jan de Bray, is in actuality the work ...