Ken Burns has told me time and again, in various interviews about his various films, that all his films are about the same ...
Mary and Saint Luke are the figures in the foreground, placed on both sides of the composition, while the two more miniature ...
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 ...
In Disney’s adaptation of Jilly Cooper ’s Rivals, the romance novelist Lizzie Vereker sits at her typewriter, and imagines a ...
The celebrated documentarian co-directs this two-night extravaganza on PBS about the towering genius of the Renaissance.
A London exhibition shows how the three painters circled one another as rivals and role models in 16th-century Florence.
Around 1800, London-based published Samuel William Fores continued the playful tradition of composite portraiture in a series ...
From portraits of the Florentine elite to depictions ... Botticelli’s “Pallas and the Centaur,” a remarkably preserved renaissance wedding chest and rare drawings of the artist that had never left ...
The Royal Academy’s exhibition on Florence does exactly that, exploring the city through the seminal works of art that were made, commissioned or displayed at the high point of the Italian Renaissance ...