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The Sheer Teeming Multiplicity and Variety of It All May 04, 2023
Pieter Bruegel the Elder was born around 1525 in the southern Netherlands in a tiny village named Bruegel outside the city of Breda, in southern Holland. Judging from the precision and exactitude with which Bruegel painted his pastoral scenes, his li...
Laughs and Smiles March 14, 2023
Frans Hals clearly had an eye for faces, but he doesn’t seem to have been very interested in turning it on himself. Unlike his great contemporary Rembrandt van Rijn, whose some eighty self-portraits comprise a richly inventive visual memoir extending...
