Yet, for head of prints and drawings Martin Clayton, who, here, selects 158 of them (including nine which are double-sided), Renaissance drawings were, with a few exceptions, “working tools”. Often, ...

John Singer Sargent made his name as the preeminent portrait of Edwardian England’s wealthy. The Wertheimer family took a ...

The “Salvador Mundi,” a $450 million portrait, is the most expensive artwork ever to be sold. In 2018, it was displayed at ...

Discover the political and cultural landscape of Florence at the turn of the 16th century, when Renaissance masters ...

Fearless, prolific, and protean from the start of his career, Thompson was able to absorb influences from both contemporary ...

Monday, Nov. 18 and 19, 2024 from 8 - 10 p.m. / PBS app. This is a two-part, four-hour documentary directed by Ken Burns, ...

John Currin's art blends satire, hyperrealism, and classical techniques, drawing from varied sources to create a dialogue between the unusual and the beautiful. His work merges elements of Old Master ...

Mary and Saint Luke are the figures in the foreground, placed on both sides of the composition, while the two more miniature ...

Tamara de Lempicka’s first major U.S. survey invokes her as a trailblazing techno-feminist who borrowed freely from art history. But it also buries her erratic second act.

She mixed with the Bloomsbury Group, and set up home with two men but her most sensual paintings were of women. Now a major ...

Otherwise, I might’ve ended up doing virtual finger-painting in kindergarten. What’s the fun in that? My favorite memories of kindergarten are going home with finger-paint on my shirt ...

Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering secrets that could help combat a growing agricultural crisis A selection of the bounty from ...