The Dutch landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael (c. 1628-1682) raised to the highest level of quality and variety the painting of landscapes based on the observation of the visible world. Jacob van Ruisdael was born in Haarlem, the son of the painter...

Wecker, Menachem Forward 10-21-2005 'Sir, I think you are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp in trying to find a firm connection," Seymour Slive told me over the phone from his Maine summer home. At 85, Slive is Gleason professor of fine arts emeritus at Harvard...

THE Courtauld Gallery's opulent set of oil sketches by Giambattista Tiepolo, until recently on display at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, forms the core of its latest exhibition, All Spirit and Fire (25 February-29 May). It is likely that most of Tiepolo's...