Often, mother-of-pearl was glued to a support and then painted with opaque pigments to create images. Enconchada paintings and screens (biombos in Spanish) were popular products of artisans in 17th ...

has been identified as a rare and highly important 17th century masterpiece by Flemish artist Jacob Jordaens - a pupil of Peter Paul Rubens who dominated painting in Flanders in the mid-17th century.

FORT WORTH — The 125 finely made artworks currently on loan to the Kimbell Art Museum from Boston ... known as the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century. Newly independent from the Spanish ...