Fine Arts & Craftsmanship

On April 25, 1915, the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey. Their mission was to capture the Dardanelles, a strait in the ...

We sometimes come across people in our lives who cause us pain. It can be tempting to want ...

Japanese painter Kazuo Torigoe creates incredible oil paintings on copper that make you wonder what in the painting ...

In the Black Hills of South Dakota, less than a half-hour drive down the road from Mount Rushmore, ...

Between the 8th and 19th centuries, Kyoto, in western Japan, was the country’s capital. Built in 794, Kyoto ...

The Renaissance painter Raphael Sanzio was born on April 6, 1483; he would die on his birthday, April ...

Some paintings almost everyone in the Western world knows: Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa,” Piero della Francesca’s “The ...

A few years ago, I flew to Florence, Italy, for a friend’s wedding. Not only was I fortunate ...

Several years ago, I commissioned a fine artist to paint my girlfriend’s favorite photo of her two teenage ...

The sun's rays entering the nearly 27,000 square feet of stained glass windows of Notre-Dame de Chartres Cathedral create thousands ...

Many stories in Western culture warn of the woes that come from challenging the divine. Today, we will ...

It is Dec. 29, 1170, at Canterbury Cathedral in southeast England, one of the most important places of ...

The hallowed ground of Westminster Abbey holds a unique place in British history. It's where coronations occur and ...

Every year, millions of people celebrate Easter as the day commemorating the resurrection of Jesus three days after ...

Last year, an Italian nun caused quite a stir at Sotheby’s, London, when her painting titled “Still Life ...

Though created nearly six centuries ago, the justly famed double portrait by the Flemish master Jan van Eyck ...

On the day I visited Padua, destroyer clouds were moving in from the west. The snow was knee-high. ...

From 594 to 622, Prince Shotoku ruled Japan. He certainly lived up to his name, for "sho" means sacred ...

As the profane runs rampant, there is little left that is sacred. Sacred love has been turned on ...

Each one of us is marvelously unique, but birth and death come to us all. Realist artist Steve ...

The art and architecture of the Château de Fontainebleau in France influenced the evolution of art not only ...

Three memories I have of the first time I visited Madrid: the relentless elegance of the women in ...

It is 1754. A violent storm erupts over Ipiales in south Colombia, just seven miles shy of Ecuador. ...

We sometimes let opportunities slip through our grasp, forgetting that our lives are over in the blink of ...

What's 215 feet high, 90 feet long, and has been admired in great art and literature for centuries—from ...

One of Donald Trump’s final acts as the nation’s 45th president was to sign an executive order called ...

From around 1910 to 1929, the Spanish city of Seville made preparations to host the Ibero-American Exposition of ...