The self-portrait has been purchased by two prominent U.K. museums thanks to a £1.6 million ($2.16 million) grant from the ...

The Corcoran Gallery of Art was adorned with the statues, commissioned in the late 1800s. But since then, they've changed ...

Caravaggio’s enormous popularity today may seem surprising, considering how out of sympathy his work and even his character ...

The CaixaForum Barcelona will be hosting a temporary exhibition of 60 works on loan from the Prado later this month. The show ...

While Savdie’s earlier work was more directly tethered to the body—drawing heavily from Baroque and Mannerist traditions—these new paintings shift toward the figure as a state of being ...

The dominance of brownish colors, i.e., the absence of brighter, flashier hues (often common in Baroque painting) emphasizes both the Franciscan and penitential dimensions of the painting and its ...

From the architecture of classical antiquity to the golden glow of Byzantine mosaics, from Renaissance and Baroque painting to opera, from neorealist cinema to ancestral artisanal knowledge, Italy has ...

In the vast saloons of Spanish and Italian baroque painting, for example, there’s a definite sense of a sharpening and fine-tuning of the historical flow, with an illuminating new room focused ...