These artists have had a profound impact on society, culture, and history by shaping artistic movements and sparking ...

In “Superfine,” the Africana-studies scholar Monica L. Miller explores the links between style, self-presentation, and ...

A pair of paintings by Dutch Golden Age master Frans Hals that possibly depict his own children are returning to the ...

They who while living had mingled their interests, fortunes, counsels, nay rather souls,” reads their tombstone, “might in ...

Their individuality, large eyes, and use of gold leaf would live on in Byzantine icons, and in the art of medieval and Renaissance Europe centuries later. Nearly 1,000 of these portraits are held ...

like having two Black men restage the iconic World War II photo of a white male sailor kissing a white nurse in Times Square. In Sherald's portrait, the men are both sailors kissing against a blue ...

The lost work had been languishing in storage for over 150 years, long credited to a male ... in the portrait that had previously been attributed to Pieter Jansz. Pourbus, a Northern Renaissance ...

I love Leonardo's depictions of male figures and how they often ... Her specialisms are in Venetian Renaissance art and old master portrait painting. A BBC Studios Specialist Factual production ...

1517-18 (Photo: Royal Collection Enterprises Limited 2024 | Royal Collection Trust) The study of nature was at the heart of Renaissance ... 1500) in which two male nudes are locked in battle.

In their naturalism and immediacy, Renaissance portraits communicate to us across time. But as the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition “Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance ...

On view through July 7, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance explores ... the image of a scantily clad male form, a woodland creature common ...