Fine Arts

Helen Valentine, a senior curator at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, shares how and why the Academy has approximately 500 architectural plaster casts: from small medieval heads coming ...

Helen Valentine, senior curator at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, shares her short talk on the ...

Old masters rarely come more venerable (and venerated) and instantly recognizable than Leonardo da Vinci. But to think of ...

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck gives us a master class on filmmaking with his stunning Oscar-nominated release “Never Look ...

Recently, a behind-the-scenes look at artists’ lives was put on display in “Sketchbook Vol. 1,” the first exhibition held ...

When American photographer Edward S. Curtis first photographed Native Indians in 1906, he didn't know that was just the ...

Between the years of 1647 and 1652, Gian Lorenzo Bernini produced what is considered his greatest sculpture: “Ecstasy ...

St. Peter's Basilica in Rome can now be seen in a whole new light, after 100,000 LEDs were ...

Stately mountains surrounded by flowing water—this is the essence of Chinese landscape painting, or “shan shui” (“mountain water”). ...

The small bronze “Mars” first came to Dresden, Germany, in 1587 as a gift from the Late Renaissance ...

The family portfolio of the great British artist Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) is the most comprehensive collection of personal ...

The life's work of arguably the greatest painter of the Flemish Renaissance, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (circa 1525–1569), ...

NEW YORK—Artists have been capturing their first thoughts in sketchbooks ever since paper was invented. As a visual ...

In 1805, Napoléon Bonaparte promised “triumphal arches” to his troops after they won the Battle of Austerlitz. The ...

In 1889, the architect Stanford White made a wooden triumphal arch for New York's Washington Square Park to ...

Chinese landscape painting, known as shan shui ("mountain water"), can be considered one of the highest forms of ...

Picture Japan’s rich history and tradition as Princeton University Art Museum invites you to explore Japan’s heritage through ...

If “breathtaking” were a building, it could very well be the Sainte-Chapelle ("Holy Chapel") in Paris, the spectacular ...

A rainbow of colors collide through the stained glass windows of Sainte-Chapelle in Paris. The tinted sunlight brings ...

Two “noble, imposing” apostles by Domenico Beccafumi first introduced Naoko Takahatake, the curator of prints and drawings at ...

“Rendering humans is the most difficult. Next are landscapes, and after that are dogs and horses. Terraces and ...

Through his writing, illustrations, paintings, and sculptures, Frederic Remington (1861–1909) reminds us of the Old West. His art ...

Classical music is well-known for its positive effects. Here's how parents can expose their children to it.

Gustave Jean Jacquet (1846 – 1909), is known among scholars as one of William Bouguereau’s top students.  Although ...

Caspar David Friedrich was a German Romantic painter. He is most well-known for his painting “Wanderer Above the ...

“The Charterhouse of Bruges: Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, and Jan Vos” is on view at The Frick ...

On April 25, 1842, the “sale of the century” began in Twickenham in southwest London; the contents of ...