Aso O. Tavitian grew up poor — but at age 64 he began an ‘‘explosion of buying.” Under the radar, he amassed old masters, leaving 331 to the Clark.

The Ezelstraat Quarter is also a hip area with lots of boutiques and art galleries and famous for its centuries-old Ezelstraat Street, former home of artist Hans Memling. When it comes to safety ...

Regarding Mary represented with a red mantle: As to the red mantle worn by Our Lady -- this isn't so rare either. Rogier van der Weyden, Hans Memling, Lucas Cranach, Geertgen tot sin Jans, Jan van ...

Hans Memling, Jan Gossaert, Jan Brueghel, Clara Peeters, Jacob Jordaens, Frans Francken II and Michaelina Wautier. There is also a recreation of a 17th-century cabinet of curiosities — called a ...

Artists on display include Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Hans Memling, Jan Gossaert, Jan Brueghel, and many more. You’ll also get to see a recreated “cabinet of curiosities.” ...

Hans Memling, Jan Brueghel, and Michaelina Wautier, augmented by a wunderkammer crafted from PEM’s own collection of antiquity. Through May 4. Peabody Essex Museum, 161 Essex St., Salem.

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Why is he a Trailblazer? Today most people first hear orchestral music in the cinema or online – and perhaps more than any other composer, trailblazer Hans Zimmer has helped to shape the sound ...

Using Cicero’s prosecutions and defenses as a sort of historical index for the turbulent late Republic, Osgood bears witness ...

The Processing Fluency Theory posits that the ease of sensory information processing in the brain facilitates esthetic pleasure. Accordingly, the theory would predict that master painters should ...

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After a selfish L.A. yuppie learns his estranged father left a fortune to an autistic-savant brother in Ohio that he didn't know existed, he absconds with his brother and sets out across the country, ...