Hendrick Avercamp

One night in June 1978, while Robert Stoddard was peacefully sleeping, thieves were sneaking through his 36-acre Worcester estate.

A dog tears at the carcass of a long-dead horse. Nearby, a man brandishes what looks like a golf club, and a dandy grins alongside a woman in a brocaded gown.

The catalog features over 200 items sourced from local estates and private collections, none of which are dealer merchandise.

In the 17th century, frigid winters and unusually cool summers blanketed northern Europe in what became known as the Little Ice Age. Dutch artists depicted this persistent global cooling in scenes of daily activities like ice skating and fishing.

The Clement C. Moore Collection, assembled over the past two decades and comprising drawings and paintings from the 16th to 20th centuries, has recently been donated to the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City.

The High Museum of Art will present “Dutch Art in a Global Age: Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston” from April 19 through July 14, 2024.

Amongst the important pictures included in Dorotheum’s Old Masters Paintings sale on April 24th, 2024, is a work by one of the most innovative artists in art history, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828).

Some time ago I went to the ice rink and I realized again how fun it is to glide and feel light (or very heavy when you fall).

When the Little Ice Age hit the northern hemisphere from the early 14th century it had artists reaching for their brushes in response to the frosty phenomenon. Clare Ford-Wille revels in the frosty results.

Flemish masters such as Jacob Grimmer, influenced by the art of Bruegel the Elder, painted snowy landscapes with skaters and hunters.

Low Country artists of the late Renaissance and Early Baroque eras captured the happiness and hardships of snowy winters—an ever rarer phenomenon now.

“Everybody Talks About the Weather” is a research exhibition conceived by curator Dieter Roelstraete on view at the historic palazzo of Ca’ Corner della Regina, Fondazione Prada’s Venetian venue, until 26 November 2023.

Some time ago I went to the ice rink and I realized again how fun it is to glide and feel light (or very heavy when you fall).

Decades after it was stolen from the Worcester Art Museum, collector Clifford Schorer spotted a missing Dutch Golden Age painting printed on a throw pillow

Snow laden branches; a frozen lake in twilight; gleeful skaters on the ice… winter paintings are one of the joys of art history.