So, here's what I've discovered so far. It's called the "Arnolfini Portrait". And it was painted in Bruges, a city in Belgium, by a man called Jan van Eyck. So, it looks pretty simple, doesn't it?
Mary and Saint Luke are the figures in the foreground, placed on both sides of the composition, while the two more miniature ...
Otto Dix, a painter labeled “degenerate” by the Nazis, refused to flatter his subjects — but they agreed to sit for him anyway.
The Berkshires museum is getting a transformative gift: 331 artworks from the Renaissance on, worth several hundred million ...
The Clark Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has been gifted 331 works by the institute's late supporter Aso O.
Gift from the Aso O. Tavitian Foundation will fund a new curatorial position to oversee the collection, maintain the works, ...
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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Britain’s greatest postwar painter, Soho’s legendary boozer and gossip: the National Portrait Gallery ...
So, when deciding what to give their parents Maria and Roger as a gift, they chose a family portrait with a touching twist. Click the video below to see the tearful unveiling of an artist's ...
While there's a risk here of leaning too far into 'not all heroes wear capes', Super/Man offers a complex portrait of a star with very human flaws and failings. There was the criticism ...
Over the past couple of weeks, when friends and family inquired what I was reading, and I replied, “A new book about the ...