Jan Steen, Self Portrait, 3rd quarter of 17th century / Wikimedia Commons Why do we so seldom...
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Polynesia Hiapo (tapa) By Dr. Caroline Klarr Polynesian Art Historian Polynesian history and culture Polynesia is one...
Beautifully preserved life-size painted limestone funerary sculptures of Prince Rahotep and his wife Nofret. Note the lifelike...
The iconic central plaza at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Photo © Salk Institute for Biological...
Figure Studies, 1553–56, Taddeo Zuccaro. Red and black chalk, 10 3/8 × 13 7/8 in. The J....
By David Pescovitz / 10.26.2016 Shinri Tezuka, 27, sculpts candy into beautiful, creepy, and very sweet creatures...
An artist at the Dunhuang Academy carefully adds color to a replica wall painting. Image courtesy of...
Victorious Youth; Unknown; Greece; 300 – 100 B.C.; Bronze with inlaid copper; 151.5 × 70 × 27.9...
J. Paul Getty at Jerash (ancient Gerasa) in Jordan, 1954. Institutional Archives, The Getty Research Institute. 5...
By David Pescovitz / 10.15.2016 My friend Daniel Martin Diaz‘s exquisite paintings lie at the intersection of...
Courtesy of the YouTube channel Skunk Bear Transcript: You probably know that pencil lead isn’t actually...
Bible, about 1280–90, Bologna, Italy. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig I 11, fol. 248v Medieval...
Detail from one of Clarke’s illustrations for Faust by Goethe (1925), his own likeness used for the...
A new study tries to measure the impact of reading on creativity and the motivation to write....
Verdant, J.A.W. Cooper. Courtesy of and © J.A.W. Cooper A chat with L.A. artist J.A.W. Cooper about...
Robert Fludd’s Temple of Music. One of the great seventeenth-century occultist’s contributions to the domain of speculative...
Aerial view of the Sydney Opera House in its Sydney Harbour setting. Photo courtesy of the Sydney...
Richard Learoyd at the Getty Center, August 29, 2016. Photo: Tristan Bravinder. All rights reserved The English...
Studies for Shoe, Crying Bead, Oval Braid and Spinster Braid, 1978, Harmony Hammond. The Getty Research Institute,...
The Getty Villa in Malibu, completed in 1974, is modeled after an ancient Roman countryside home in...
Bankers and Silk Merchants, from Vincent of Beauvais’ Mirror of History, Ghent, about 1475. Tempera colors and...
The elements of art, described entirely in verse—using real and mythological creatures By Porche’ Carter / 08.09.2016...
Worth a thousand words? Or $37 million. Darren Ornitz/Reuters By Dr. Robert Ekelund / 08.02.2016 Eminent Scholar...
Lightbulbs, about 1938, Fred G. Korth. Gelatin silver print, 13 1/4 x10 5/16 in. The J. Paul...
Felling Trees on the Ile de Croissy (Massacre of the Innocents), 1847, Théodore Rousseau. Oil on canvas,...
In the galleries of Traversing the Globe through Illuminated Manuscripts. Photo: Bryan C. Keene. All rights reserved...
A portrait of Frank Norris by the painter Ernest Clifford Peixotto, possibly Norris’ oldest friend, the two...
Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California (1868), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC. By Dr. Ricky J....
French “Indienne”, “Le Grand Corail”, a printed or painted textile in the manner of Indian productions, which used mordants...
Art history is far from set in stone. Engineer Maurizio Seracini spent 30 years searching for Leonardo...