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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

By the 17th century, Europeans were using ... In Neolithic graves in Denmark, scientists found human remains wrapped in seagrass, representing a close connection with the sea.

the founder of the National Association for the Preservation of Skin Art. I found it while Googling around, trying desperately to understand why in the world you’d be okay having bits of human ...

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 ...

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 ...

or Dutch seventeenth-century art, this course emphasizes different connections between cultures and centuries based on reconsidered or redrawn boundaries. Often it shows that bodies of water are a key ...

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 ...