Thinking about a day trip from Amsterdam? Wat leuk! There is heaps to see outside of the city. Find the best day trips (by ...

In our Gospel reading today, Jesus challenges the narrow view of God held by the people of Nazareth, his hometown. Just as ...

The recent discovery of an art forger's workshop reminds us of the long history of fraudulent artworks – here are the simple ...

In authenticating the painting in the Burlington Magazine, one expert insisted "in no other picture by the great Master of Delft do we find ... the crime of selling a Vermeer – therefore a ...

The most famous interior in Delft is not one of those sunbathed parlours, filled with globes, paintings, chandeliers and virginals, half-seen in the paintings of Johannes Vermeer, but a dusky ...

Twenty-five years ago in Rome, a man lugged a painting in a rubbish bag up a flight of stairs and sold it for $5.5m. The painting was a lavish 17th-century still life by Jan Davidsz de Heem ...