You can see Fabritius’ hallmarks in Vermeer’s work: the crumbling plaster, the light and shadow, the startling compositions, ...

The exhibition reveals Van Gogh’s intense devotion to painting—even through deep sorrow and unbearable hallucinations.

Auteur Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love is about a great love and a great loss. The couple in the film is a Mr Chow, a ...

HENRY CLAY FRICK made a very 19th-century fortune in steel and coal, but his passion lay in other materials: canvas and oil paint ... Johannes Vermeer and others. For the past five years, the ...

This course provides an overview of the main artistic and architectural developments in Europe from 1600 to 1790. The focus is on Italy, the Netherlands, France, Britain, Spain, and their American ...

When David Hockney, a working-class Yorkshire lad, left his Bradford school at 16 to go to art school ... His preferred ratio of oil to pigment would explain that. "I don't use much oil," he ...

A permanent fixture of the museum, however, is Valencian painter Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida’s Vision of Spain, comprising 14 monumetal oil paintings ... and Vermeer) on par with the Met ...