LAWRENCE –The importance of knowing what’s going on in your neighborhood and upholding its honor is at least as old as comparable societal expectations in 17 th-century Netherlands, according to a new ...

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Not everything glittered in the 17th century when what is now the Netherlands was a mercantile, military and artistic superpower, so a Dutch museum has decided to stop calling that ...

Frans Hals' 1625 oil painting "Portrait of Cunera van Baersdorp" is among the works included in “Dutch Art in a Global Age: Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,” on view through Feb. 9 ...