Otto Dix, a painter labeled “degenerate” by the Nazis, refused to flatter his subjects — but they agreed to sit for him ...
Museums are lucky if they receive either a large collection of valuable artworks or a big check. Getting both at the […] ...
Mary and Saint Luke are the figures in the foreground, placed on both sides of the composition, while the two more miniature ...
The collection he gave to the museum is “portrait-heavy,” Meslay said ... (circa 1440), by the 15th-century Flemish painter Jan van Eyck and his workshop. The gift is notable partly because ...
The Clark Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has been gifted 331 works by the institute's late supporter Aso O.
A rudimentary driveway along the south side of the house led to a small whitewashed garage for the poor man’s car Pnin ... somewhat en jeune, to Jan van Eyck’s ample-jowled, fluff-haloed ...
A crucifix hangs above his desk. Antonello’s careful imitation of the texture of their surfaces, whether rough or shiny, cold or warm, recalls Jan van Eyck’s approach to painting the objects in his ...
Niccolo Colantonio, Antonello’s master in Naples, was a copyist of the most famous Netherlandish painter, Jan van Eyck. Our painting is certainly ... for example, his Portrait of a Man). One ...
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 ...
Gift from the Aso O. Tavitian Foundation will fund a new curatorial position to oversee the collection, maintain the works, ...
A star rating of 4 out of 5. Blockbuster superhero movies are 10 a penny these days, but it was not until Christopher Reeve took on the role of comic-book icon Superman in 1978 and made you ...
Sotheby's will be auctioning off the portrait of scientist Alan Turing and it could fetch as much as £150,000. A robot artist is set to make history as the first to have a work put up for sale by ...