Described as “one of the earliest true genre paintings” (genre painting is the term that art historians use for images of ordinary people engaging in common activities) “Boy Drinking ...

Nor did the High Renaissance burst forth from a single perspective painting. Back in the fourth century B.C., Alexander the Great’s sculptor Lysippos is said to have changed the course of art ...

ROME — The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin ...

utilizes collage to talk about artists who died during the AIDS crisis as the result of illness and its complications. Each collage is a story compiled from watercolor paintings, quotes from ...

During the Renaissance, geologically extraordinary events -and even the study of common rocks - inspired great artists and sometimes even revolutionized ... to improve his paintings and in doing ...

Now, artists competed to see which art imitated nature more accurately. Perspective revolutionized painting through the ability to create tridimensional spaces on a surface. Some consider this pro ...

When colonial schools taught the “fine arts,” manuscript painting was neglected. Even after independence, Pakistan’s premier art academy, the National College of Arts, emphasized Western ...

Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio, the blockbuster artist who ...