“Lighting is to film what music is to opera,” Cecil B DeMille once said. In the early days of cinema, light was blasted at a relentlessly Wagnerian volume: to obtain clear, even images, primitive film ...

When Amsterdam’s first city playhouse opened in 1638, an inscription over the entrance quoted Shakespeare’s “All the world’s a stage”. Seventeenth-century Holland was known for its painters, not its ...

IN THE 350 years since his death in 1669, Rembrandt van Rijn has been reinterpreted time and again. The Victorians considered him a reclusive genius. Critics in the mid-20th century thought he was a ...

Four oil paintings have been discovered to be the work of 17th-Century Dutch master Rembrandt. The works, which were thought to have been painted by Rembrandt's pupils, have been put on show at the ...