Art history: artists, movements and museums

The Laughing Cavalier by Frans Hals
Vermeer and Frans Hals: two ways of painting human presence
Frans Hals captures the laughter and poses in motion; Vermeer concentrates the presence in a luminous pause. A comparison of looks, touches, formats and markets, without inventing direct influence. Read more...
The Syndics of the Drapers’ Guild by Rembrandt, at the heart of the 17th-century Dutch market
Rembrandt's contemporaries: Vermeer, Frans Hals, Rubens and the Dutch market
Rembrandt facing Vermeer, Frans Hals and Rubens: chronology, styles, clienteles, workshops and functioning of the Dutch art market in the 17th century. Read more...