Overshadowed by the High Renaissance, the 15th century artists of the Lowlands were called “Flemish primitives.” But the modern eye has adjusted to their light, and appreciates the full sophistication ...

Big-bearded William Morris, who did some of the first thinking about industry’s impact on art, was fond of pointing out that the word “manufacturer” had lost all if its original meaning (hand-maker).

GHENT, Belgium - The main suspect in the legendary art heist is said to have whispered with his dying breath: "Only I know where the `Adoration' is..." More than seven decades later, the whereabouts ...

420 x 580 cm. (165.4 x 228.3 in.) Cf. Seipel/Schmitz-von Ledebur, Szenen aus dem Buch Tobias. Aus der Tapisseriesammlung des Kunsthistorischen Museums, Vienna 2004, p. 41 ff.