Painting by 17th-century Dutch painter has been researched and restored as part of the Women of the Rijksmuseum project ...

Still-life painting is one of the oldest genres in history, yet it is often dismissed as too simple and not serious enough to ...

Occasionally a skull appeared somewhere amid the feast. These works, called vanitas paintings, depicted a literal banquet — but also, metaphorically, the banquet of life — abruptly cut short ...