Frans Hals, The Regents and Regentesses of St Elisabeth’s HAARLEM.- The official handover of the largest gift in the museum’s recent history took place today in the Frans Hals Museum. The Elisabeth van Thüringen Fund is donating eleven works of art from...

Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem (1562 – 1638), The Massacre of the Innocents, 1591, canvas, 268 x 257 cm, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem Francis Bacon, From Muybridge ‘The Human Figure in Motion: Woman emptying a Bowl of Water/Paralytic Child Walking on All...

HAARLEM.- Judith Leyster (1609 – 1660) is the most famous female painter of the Dutch Golden Age. Unlike many contemporary female artists, who concentrated on meticulously painting true-to-life flowers and insects, she ventured into more ambitious figure-based...