If you search through the art history archives for hidden gags, visual puns, and absurd characters, it will become clear—no one does it like the Dutch. In fact, 25 joke books were written in the ...

Isaak Koedijk's "The Barber Surgeon," painted in 1649-1650, is one of numerous paintings on display at the San Diego Museum of Art as part of the "Dutch Painting: Special Loans from the Museum of Fine ...

Frans Post, "Landscape in Brazil with Sugar Plantation" (1660), oil on canvas, 14 1/2 x 21 1/4 inches (36.9 x 54 cm), held at the National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen (image via Wikimedia Commons) ...

Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, and Cosimo de Medici were among her admirers. Poets compared her art to Michelangelo’s. Seventeenth-century Dutch textile and paper cutting artist Joanna Koerten was ...

Except when they are annoying, insects often go unnoticed. But not by a Dutch artist named Joris Hoefnagel (1542-1600). Hoefnagel observed bugs, along with birds, fish and other creatures, then drew ...

Two decades ago, Benjamin Moser moved to Utrecht in the Netherlands. At age 25, the Houston native had fallen in love and left his country, settling into a new culture. “In a situation like that, you ...