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Giuseppe Castiglione, an eighteenth-century Jesuit painter and missionary in China, is now considered one of the glories Chinese national art.

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.

Lucian Freud’s plant portraits, only recently brought into the spotlight and associated with the renown of his celebrated portraits of people.

A manuscript with an adventuresome background takes us to Eastern lands colonized by Europeans in the sixteenth century.

Magnificent painted folding screens tell the tale of sixteenth-century encounters between the cultures of Portugal, Japan, and Mexico.

The world of Canadian painter Alexander Colville reconstructed through a selection of his paintings.