In her paintings, the 17th-century Dutch painter captured a pure, crystalline moment of time with unnerving verisimilitude.

A facsimile of the 17th-century Dutch documents that Charles Gehring spent 50 years translating, showing the condition of ancient records damaged by floods, in battles, in leaky ship holds and ...

It is now in a black ebony Dutch frame of the late 17th century. This improves the appearance of the painting, since the simpler frame is less distracting and puts greater emphasis on Vermeer’s ...

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Thomas Kaplan, an American collector of Dutch 17th-century art, plans to use the proceeds to help fund the conservation of “big cats”. “Wildlife conservation is the one passion I have which ...

showing off the new structure around the 17th century warship. Due for completion in 2028, in time to mark the 400th anniversary of the shipwreck, the cost of the project is estimated at up to 17. ...

Workers install a new metallic support structure around the 17th-century warship Vasa at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm. Since then, the ship, which is largely intact, has been exhibited at the ...

Like Robbie Williams, you may think of scurvy as a "17th-century pirate disease" – certainly nothing from this millennium (ahem). But, as the 51-year-old singer found out, it isn't just the scourge of ...

A Swedish museum has launched a massive four-year project to preserve the sagging hull of the Vasa, a majestic warship that sank nearly 400 years ago and is now one of Sweden's most popular tourist ...

Images of the monarch on bank notes are a much more recent invention. Although bank notes began to be issued from the late seventeenth century, they did not come to predominate over coins until the ...

"A 17th-century pirate disease." Indeed, scurvy was a lot more common amongst old world sailors on long voyages out at sea, due to the limited access of fresh fruits and vegetables. “With body ...