Fine Arts & Craftsmanship

For the past 26 years, gold-thread embroiderer Sylvie Deschamps has headed Le Bégonia d'Or, a gold-embroidery workshop in the historic town of Rochefort, just south of La Rochelle in the west ...

Amid our daily interactions and pursuits, we may dream of a quiet life out in the middle of ...

My work as a composer has taken me with some regularity to New York City, and each time ...

Irrespective of our backgrounds, so many of us have endured what seemed like insurmountable hardship, and, somehow, we ...

Since 1742, visitors have delighted in seeing Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window” at ...

PG-13 | 1h 40min | Documentary | 20 August 2021 “The great design of art is to restore ...

The double portraits of Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza by Piero della Francesca in the Uffizi Gallery, ...

Our lives can be fascinating. We are born into a world preset with culture, tradition, language, and so ...

The Tempietto in Rome is at once a reflection of divine order and a monument to St. Peter. ...

Rare and sublime, The Cleveland Museum of Art’s 15th-century "Amitabha Triad" features three divine beings central to Buddhist ...

I sometimes wonder what it means to be the hero in one’s own life story. How might we ...

In 1940, full of love and the innocence of childhood, Kathy Gillis vowed to be an artist. It ...

“Stupendous and beyond all description … the incomparable carving of our Gibbons, who is without controversy the greatest ...

On April 15, 2019, the world was aghast. People gazed in horror at their screens, and Parisians took ...

In this study of "The Stoning of Saint Stephen," the late-Renaissance painter Aurelio Lomi captured the moment of ...

It may be hard to imagine, but many well-known masterpieces are not how the artists originally painted them. ...

How often do you get up early during the school year, stroll outdoors, and listen to the birds ...

Piazza del Duomo, Pisa (translated as Pisa Cathedral Square) was conceived in a time when Pisa held a ...

Let’s close our eyes and imagine the best version of ourselves. What does this look like for us? ...

In 1716, poet Alexander Pope received a letter from writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who had just seen ...

Five hundred years ago, Michelangelo forced popes, princes, and prelates to crane their necks and gaze at heaven. ...

We are often encouraged to realize our dreams over the course of our lives. Some want to start ...

From his basement studio in Brooklyn, New York, American sculptor Justin Ryan Kendall creates affordable plaster casts of ...

With much of Europe gradually opening up after months of varying levels of lockdown, many of us may ...

What is heaven’s will? We may have heard that we should follow the will of heaven, but what ...

Have you ever tried to recall the sound of another person’s voice? It’s difficult to do when you ...

It’s a first for Sotheby’s NY. From July 16 through to July 26, the prestigious auction house will ...