This site accompanies the National Gallery of Art exhibition on Gerrit Dou running April 16-August 6, 2000. A seventeenth-century Dutch painter, Dou was "considered the founder of the Leiden school of fijnschilders (fine painters)." The site is divided into three sections: Paintings, Life and Times, and Resources. Life and Times is a good place for visitors unfamiliar with Dou to start, as it...

Boston's lovely Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) has been in possession of Vincent Van Gogh's painting "Ravine" for years. What curators at the Museum did not know until recently was that there was yet another Van Gogh painting underneath "Ravine". Working with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, preservation experts at both institutions noticed that there was a second painting underneath the paint...

Created by painter Jonathan Janson, this Web site consists of over 250 pages of information on the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, broadly categorized into his art, his life, and related research. Examples from the art area are: an illustrated list of Vermeer's paintings in chronological order that includes both thumbnail-size b&w and larger color images, dimensions and locations of the originals,...