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A second signed version of Pieter Paul Rubens' St Sebastian, recently auctioned off at Sotheby's.
The voracious and well-informed career as an art collector of Cardinal Richelieu, Chief Minister of State under Louis XIII of France.
Can a colour without a name exist? Perhaps not, but there is a colour on the scale that doesn't correspond to anything specific: indigo.
Venice's Palazzo Loredan is hosting an exhibit on Sanya Kantarovsky: the interplay between the architecture of the building and the artworks offers an opportunity to reflect upon the meaning of time.
The idea of Total Work of Art, the dream of Wagner and Klimt, concentrated in a 16-page booklet illustrated by Viennese Carl Otto Czeschka.
In honour of the exhibit on Niagara Falls held at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, we're revisiting the presence of this natural wonder in culture and the arts.
Some of the musician-painters of the Renaissance are the perfect example of the close ties between the arts in this historical period.
Winckelmann’s Roman life in a “spoken portrait” that brings to light both personal and secret aspects.
The portrait of Dr. Boucard, Tamara de Lempicka’s main patron, sold at Christie’s for over six million pounds.
The artistic cycle of Vittorio Zecchin’s Thousand and One Nights, from the turn of the twentieth century, inspired by exoticism and fable.
A learned and witty article describes the many self-portraits painted by Sofonisba Anguissola, often with self-promotional intent.
For the first time, the Accademia Carrara is set to reunite the Visconti-Sforza “Colleoni” tarot deck with other artistic tarot cards from every century.
António Filipe Pimentel describes the history of the cenotaphs erected at the Escorial in the sixteenth century.
The peaceful but mysterious interiors painted by the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi are explored in terms of their history, artistry, and poetry.
The dome painted by Correggio in the Church of San Giovanni Evangelista in Parma at the heart of a new and original layout.
A new auction record for a drawing by Rembrandt has been established with the portrait of a lion, sold in recent months by Sotheby's New York.
The astounding results recorded in three different marvels: a painting by Canaletto, a mirror by Claude Lalanne and a book by Galileo Galilei.
Mr PA, Orhan Pamuk's alter ego, visits the Metropolitan Museum in New York and lingers over Giovanni Paolo Panini's Ancient Rome.
The Moleskine notebooks of Nobel Laureate for Literature Orhan Pamuk, in whichw ords and images meld and mingle, on exhibit at the Masone Labyrinth.
The records at auction of paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi and Fede Galizia, as told by Simone Facchinetti.
"Sleepers": artworks, unknown masterpieces, awaiting recognition by the Connoisseur so as to be valued as they deserve.
A conjecture as to the person depicted in a little-known work by Gustav Klimt interwoven with the motif of the “Black model of European painting”.
Learn all about Ferdinand Bac, an ecclectic dilettante artist who masterminded the extravagante villa of Les Colombières on the Côte d’Azure.
The frescoes of the Palace of Sassuolo, the delicious retreat of the Dukes of Este, are a symphony of trompe-l’œil.
