Dauphin County Prison is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City until July 13. The particular work created in Dauphin County is called “Purgatory.” “The one thing that helped ...

A show at the Louvre expands our understanding of the Florentine father of Western painting, who brought a revelatory naturalism and narrative sense to his work in the 13th century.

1240-1302), the Florentine artist often called the father of Western painting. A mere two decades after his death, Dante praised him in “Purgatory.” Two centuries later, Giorgio Vasari pronoun ...