Joseph Wright of Derby was one of the first people to document public scientific lectures during the Enlightenment period.

The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) will present the art exhibit Above Your Dreams, a collection of original oil paintings by Kevin A. Short, Feb. 6-May 11 at 113 Harbor Way, Ste. 190. The ...

In his 1550 volume Lives of the Artists, painter and architect Giorgio Vasari snuck in praise for the Flemish artist Jan van Eyck in his chapter on the Italian painter Antonello da Messina. Vasari ...

May 29—Caroline Mayer will show her oil paintings featuring water and birds in the exhibition "Loving Nature" at NOMA Gallery throughout June. The show runs from June 2 to 25, with an opening ...

Art historians often wish that Renaissance painters could shell out secrets of the craft. Now, scientists may have cracked one using chemistry and physics. Around the turn of the 15th century in Italy ...

When a fire nearly destroyed Paris’ Notre-Dame Cathedral in 2019, a collection of 17th-century masterpieces was hanging in its dim side chapels. Those paintings, known as the Mays, were recovered ...

The natural beauty of the Yakima Valley comes to life on canvas through the artistry of Duane Heilman. From an apple orchard blossoming in spring to a pond illuminated by summer sun and a winter walk ...

High school students from Boulder’s Watershed School took inspiration from the lives of seniors to create oil paintings for their Painting and Perception class. The paintings made by the Watershed art ...