Art Speaks

In the first decades of the 1800s, revolutions spread across Europe inspired by the American and French revolutions that came before them.  The world of the Paris Salons and Royal ...

The destructive power of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 effectively ended civic life in Pompeii ...

One spring morning I visited Princeton, N.J. I drove down Mercer, crossed Nassau Street, and headed toward the ...

Every life on this planet is interconnected to and dependent upon one another. “The Blind Girl” by John ...

Although William Bouguereau (1825–1905), painted the Madonna and Child several times throughout his career, there are two versions ...

Yet another lost da Vinci artwork may be awaiting discovery somewhere in Europe. In recent weeks a portrait, ...

Throughout much of Asia—and over the course of several centuries—the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley have been held ...

Like Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Edmund Blair Leighton (English, 1852–1922) paid tremendous attention to detail in his work. Leighton ...

The expression in this girl's eyes seem way too intense. She gives such a studious effort to the ...

This Thinker, not by Rodin, was created between 5250 and 4500 BC.

West African caryatid stools are prestige items designed as the "seat" of the soul of a new King ...

These 16th century plates from Italy are not just pretty; they're an instruction manual for proper wifely conduct.

In this painting by Hieronymous Bosch, a ship of fools is adrift on a calm sea. Are they ...

In the early 1970s a battered copper alms dish turned up in a bundle of clothes donated to ...

There’s always something special in the air every time we get across a statue of St. George slaying ...

Hans Holbein the Younger (1497–1543) influenced Pietro Annigoni (1910–1988) with his amazing painting method.

Broke in the era of Napoleon, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres made beautiful drawings to make ends meet.

"The Night Watch" by Rembrandt has been leaving viewers speechless since 1642, though it’s gotten darker over the ...

Bronze vessels containing offerings of food and drink became part of the ritual practice of the Shang king-shaman.

Bodies in medieval sculpture are often expressively distorted, but the gesture of this figure’s head is endlessly fascinating ...

Punished by the Gods for warning the Trojans, the priest of Apollo and his sons are being killed ...

Viennese artist Hans Makart was the rock star of his day. Then he went insane, and died. Did ...

Kennington often painted, like many of his contemporaries, the plight of the impoverished and destitute in order to ...

Africans in the potteries used the materials at hand to create containers, face jugs, designed to serve the ...

Art Speaks is the Epoch Times' global art exploration project. Here we explore works of art created before ...

The abundance of good-quality white marble on the Cyclades islands encouraged its wide use in the creation of ...

Eastman Johnson uses many themes throughout his work; the theme of youth was viewed in the post-Civil War ...