By Hilton Kramer 1/11/99 12:00am

At Last, After 300 Years, De Hooch Has a Solo Show

In life, as in death, it was the fate of the 17th-century Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch (pronounced “de Hoke”) to be luckless in everything but the quality of his finest pictures. In his lifetime, this master painter of solidly built Dutch houses and scenes of domestic felicity seems never to have owned a home Read More

By Hilton Kramer 6/08/98 12:00am

Even After Four Centuries, Caravaggio’s a Knockout

Owing to both the circumstances in which it was conceived and the uncommon appeal of the exhibition itself, the show called Caravaggio and His Italian Followers at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford has understandably been causing a stir, and when you go to see it you can easily see why. The best paintings in the Read More