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.

Early Dutch seascapes were rendered from a “bird’s-eye—or God’s-eye—view,” said Sebastian Smee in The Boston Globe. Later paintings seek to place the viewer right in the action.

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.

Among the paintings are vibrant still lifes, rich land and seascapes and intimate portraits ... "He made us understand that since we both spoke the Dutch language, and our heritage was Dutch ...

Stolen Dutch master painting back in Worcester after nearly 47 years — will soon be seen at Worcester Art Museum ...

That’s what turned up in Hendrick van Anthonissen‘s 17th-century seascape painting View ... in the Fitzwilliam Museum’s Dutch Golden Age paintings gallery.

But the museum broke with that trend in October, when it shed, or deaccessioned, a score of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings with no clear acquisition in mind. The museum, which has ...