"I was very anxious about the girl getting stained under the film and hoped everything would work out, " the artist told Newsweek.

With realism booming, it was easy to dismiss the Sienese school as a doorway, not a destination. In the late nineteenth century ... In his art, however, Duccio seems most himself when he ...

The famed 19th-century Italian artist is known for his skill in depicting elegant scenes of bourgeois life. Entitled The Parlor Concert, this painting is among the best of his oeuvre, boasting an ...

For museums and their public, Impressionism is the Goldilocks movement: not too old or too new, not too challenging or too sappy; just right. Renaissance art may baffle with arcane religious symbolism ...

Around 1800, London-based published Samuel William Fores continued the playful tradition of composite portraiture in a series ...

Shakespeare’s Tragic Art, by Rhodri Lewis (Princeton ... The Irish Republican Brotherhood, founded in the late nineteenth century, was a secret society devoted to the establishment—through ...

Gustave Courbet with his famous painting 'Les Demoiselles des bords de la Seine (été)' is the French guest at the Museo e ...

Jeff Wall, The Thinker, 1986. © Jeff Wall. Courtesy White Cube Marking 30 years of collaboration with Jeff Wall (b.1946, ...

In the late 19th century, Westerners coined the phrase 'The Land of the Morning Calm' to describe Korea's 1392-1910 Joseon ...

The Central Washington University Department of Art + Design will host art historian Asiel Sepúlveda 4 to 5 p.m. Thursday, ...

For several months in 1898, a pair of male lions turned the Tsavo region of Kenya into their own human hunting grounds, killing many construction workers who were building the Kenya-Uganda railway.

This richly drawn historical novel is based on a real Sarah Evans, tried for murder in 19th-century London. As an illiterate ...