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AMSTERDAM (AP) – In the early 17th Century, laughter was almost never captured on a painter’s canvas. Frans Hals changed that. “He was not a clean painter,” said co-curator of a major exhibition of the Dutch master’s paintings that opens this week at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Friso Lammertse. “The people, they often laugh, and that’s very […]

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In the early 17th century, laughter was almost never captured on a painter's canvas. Frans Hals changed that. “He was not a sober painter,” said Friso Lammertse, co-curator of a major exhibition of the Dutch master's paintings that opens this week at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. “The people, they often laugh, and that’s very remarkable in the 17th century — that they smile or even laugh, which was hardly done," he added Tuesday at a preview of the exhibition.

Frans Hals is the latest 17th century Dutch master to feature in a major exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, following recent showings of the art of Rembrandt and Vermeer.

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The Roman Empire, Ukrainian modernism and early Buddhist art are all covered

The puzzling incident comes just weeks after an anonymous tipster delivered a stolen van Gogh to Arthur Brand's flat in Amsterdam

Theres always something going on in the art world, and this time, its about a stolen painting being returned to its rightful place. Three and a half years ago, the 1884 Vincent van Gogh painting, The