This is the first Art Diary of 2025. Viewing art, as with its making, involves paying attention. As Simone Weil once pointed out, paying attention equates to prayer. A dazzling discovery has ...

Expertly curated by Northern European art specialist Tico Seifert, Dürer to Van Dyck speaks to the great variety of purposes in drawing, from experiments in style, to preparations for paintings ...

At this commercially auspicious moment, Art Dealer Godfrey Phillips of London ordered sent from Belgium a canvas by Sir Anthony Van Dyck which he intended to buy for $100,000. The picture ...

The scale and ambition evident in a monumental 1635 family portrait by Anthony van Dyck.

In July 1624, two artists met in Palermo during an outbreak of plague which killed thousands of people, including the city’s ruler. The younger artist, Anthony Van Dyck, made a quick pen and ink ...