The Dutch "old mistress" was renowned in her own lifetime. But since her death 275 years ago, her legacy has been largely ...

Wikimedia Commons/Eric TurquinA 16th- century painting by Italian Baroque artist Caravaggio was ... and lived in Naples at the beginning of the 17th century. In fact, a 1607 letter addressed ...

Caravaggio’s painting belongs to the Baroque period, which spanned from the early 17th century to the mid-18th ... His psychological realism was strikingly different from the Renaissance painters.

Prophetic words: over a long lifetime, Bernini undertook commissions for eight popes, transforming the look of 17th-century ... art form in Rome—especially the new and startling realism of ...

It’s an apt description. The Baroque period is an art style of the 17th century in which artists sought movement, contrast, emotional intensity, and variety in their works. Rinklin, assistant ...

who used to paint alongside Caravaggio and lived in Naples at the beginning of the 17th century. In fact, a 1607 letter addressed to the Duke of Mantua from a Flemish painter visiting Italy noted that ...

tailors and innkeepers managing the flow of art in 17th-century Italy. Beyond the Fringe, an exhibition at Nicholas Hall Gallery in New York, spotlights this understudied corner of the early art ...

Yet, the two artists stand together in ways that matter. They both dwell in the world of hyper-realism, a painting style that is anything but in vogue in the current age, and something not ...

About half a century before Diderot’s Encyclopédie, and three centuries before the invention of Google, Dunton intended to cater to the learned male patrons of London’s new coffeehouses ...

The copper pan rack, seen above Meghan's white marble island, taps into a kitchen storage idea with roots in the 17th century. In the 1600s, pot racks and hooks became more prominent in kitchens ...