Dutch masters' seascapes come alive at PEM Chris Bergeron/ [email protected] As their country’s ships explored the New World, Dutch painters discovered that the sea, unlike human subjects, never ...

A visually dazzling and informative new exhibit, “The Golden Age of Dutch Seascapes,” at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem brings alive a pioneering century of bold art and exploration.

Seascapes were more or less invented by Dutch artists of the 17th century, as a means of celebrating the nation’s naval pre-eminence.

In MutualArt’s artist press archive, Abraham Willaerts is featured in The Golden Age of Dutch Seascapes will be on View at the Peabody Essex Museum, a piece from ArtDaily in May 2009. The artist died ...

A visually dazzling and informative new exhibit, "The Golden Age of Dutch Seascapes" at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, brings alive a pioneering century of bold art and exploration.

When art conservators in the United Kingdom were cleaning a 17th-century Dutch seascape, they found a surprise: an image of a beached whale that had been hidden for at least 150 years.

When art conservators in the United Kingdom were cleaning a 17th-century Dutch seascape, they found a surprise: an image of a beached whale that had been hidden for at least 150 years.