One of the most important paintings of the Northern Renaissance hasn’t been quite itself for hundreds of years. ...

“It was in the night, that the Gods sang the world into existence. From the world of light, ...

In the 1890s, Japanese artist Taki Katei (1830–1901) was at the height of his career, honored with professional ...

From the late 19th century through to around the 1940s, everyday shopkeepers across England advertised their businesses on ...

FLORENCE, Italy—The Brancacci Chapel of Santa Maria Carmine in Florence is where you’ll find one of the most ...

Life can be hard. When faced with fear, crisis, and hardship, some Buddhists call out to Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara ...

In the not too distant past, the Chinese freely worshiped their ancestors and deities within their own homes. ...

Charles Dickens is largely responsible for our idea of Christmas today, more than 170 years after he published ...

Tim Travis, curator of prints at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, shares in an email about ...

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND—As he paints, David Owain Jones sometimes feels he's trying to figure out exactly why he ...

Harpsichordist and organist Marta López Fernández specializes in early keyboard instruments and is currently the harpsichord and continuo ...

Rare, sublime art is on show in San Diego, in an exhibition titled “Christ: Life, Death, and Resurrection." ...

Most of us know Sir Winston Churchill’s very public persona—a man of great charisma, achievements, and vision. Chartwell ...

Josiah Wedgwood spent his life perfecting the art of pottery, establishing 260 years ago the company that bears ...

Until some 40 years ago, traditional Maori music was thought to be all but lost. Then Brian Flintoff, ...

One block south of New York's Central Park, a 1,000-year-old choral tradition is thriving at Saint Thomas Choir ...

Who better to paint biblical scenes than someone who had devoted her life to God. Sister Plautilla Nelli ...

Scribe Patricia Lovett writes calligraphy and paints illuminations at her home studio in Sevenoaks, Kent, England. But she ...

“Parting is such sweet sorrow,” said Shakespeare’s Juliet, expressing in a few short words a romantic sentiment that ...

Since 1769, architecture, sculpture, and art students enrolled at the Royal Academy of Arts Schools in London all ...

For the past 23 years, opera—and avocados—have thrived on Rick and Joan Kennaway’s “Operacado” orchard at Glenbervie, Whangarei, ...

September marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Clara Schumann, a woman well known to musicians, but perhaps ...

Georgian Artist Niko Chocheli has dedicated his life to learning, teaching, and conveying beauty onto canvas, paper, and ...

Every year since 1768, the Summer Exhibition has been held at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. ...

A still-life painting can tell a moving story. The painting may appear to be just an array of ...

Everyone who enters the Scarpelli Mosaici workshop in Florence, Italy, is told the story of “commesso Fiorentino” or ...

LONDON—Once in a while, a painting moves me to such an extent that it takes my breath away. ...