This dioarama, which used actual human remains, is another example of the ways Ruysch used bodies to make art. National Library of Medicine Frederik Ruysch, born on this day in 1638, was a doctor ...

1668: The Year of the Animal in France by Peter Sahlins delves into the radical influence of Louis XIV’s menagerie at Versailles on the art ... of human and animal dated from the 17th century ...

While the bulk of 17th-century ... of Art graduating with a Masters in Sculpture in 1987. Since then, her art has attracted global attention, even being used to help raise awareness about human ...

India, April 26 -- Art, in its essence, is an exploration of human emotions ... a diagonal position that draws the viewer into the 17th century. The rediscovery of this painting is a remarkable ...

So it has been to a large degree with the art of France in the 17th century—a century that for a long time seemed too staid and static for modern tastes. Since World War II, museums on both ...

This gathering of the Dandini provides a reminder that painting in 17th-century Italy often was ... For another, there was the connection of the art to the Medici, the banking and political ...

tailors and innkeepers managing the flow of art in 17th-century Italy. Beyond the Fringe, an exhibition at Nicholas Hall Gallery in New York, spotlights this understudied corner of the early art ...

The exhibition text, written by students in the Colorado College course “The Age of the Baroque: Art and Empire in the 17th Century” will further explore connections between Baroque and ...