Painter Hendrick Terbrugghen establishes a new reputation more than three centuries after his death. The Dutchman’s first exhibition is in Ohio’s Dayton Art Institute.

By 1600, European painters found themselves losing the Renaissance reverence for Greco-Roman antiquity. Following the Italian artist Caravaggio, they stopped looking backward and returned, as artists have done repeatedly throughout history, to the direct observation of the visible world. What they saw was a growing middle-class life in an ever…

Report on the great 15th century painter Hieronymus Bosch, who lived an died in ’s Hertogenbosch.

THE great 15th century painter Hieronymus Bosch was much obsessed with sin and hell; his best-known paintings are populated by griffons, scarabs and demons in a fantastic landscape in which sinners ride on mice, embrace pigs, are bound, speared and tortured by horrifying monsters. Lustful monks and covetous priests are…

Pieter Bruegel was a lowbrow in art. He kept his Dutch feet firmly on lowland ground, stuck close to everyman’s taste. Surviving paintings are shown in Vienna at the moment.

PIETER BRUEGEL was a lowbrow in art. In an age when the Italian Renaissance was sweeping all before it, Bruegel kept his Dutch feet firmly on lowland ground, stuck close to everyman’s taste. His zestful love of practical jokes, wise saws, old proverbs and the daily life in field and…

A report on the life and work of painter Piet Mondrian. 13 years after Mondrian’s death his recognition is reaching new heights.

WHETHER they know it or not, the architect, the layout artist, the sign painter, and even the counter girl who wraps a candy box asymmetrically with a gay ribbon all owe a debt to a lone Dutchman named Piet Mondrian. Cubist Mondrian’s crisp, rectilinear paintings, once scoffed at as being…