Artist Marc Dennis renders lush still lifes that layer glossy bubbles, insects, and birds atop fleeting imagery.

and lecturer in Art History, Williams College The so-called golden age of Dutch painting in the 1600s coincided with an economic boom that had a lot to do with the transatlantic slave trade.

A magnificent 17th-century bourgeois residence transformed into an art gallery: perfect for parading the Golden Age of Dutch painting. Wandering through the succession of small rooms that make up ...

An examination of the iconography in three classic paintings demonstrates that “Masque” has much in common with the vanitas genre—for example ... about the vanitas productions of the Dutch Golden Age.