Fine Arts & Craftsmanship

We are sometimes left physically, mentally, and yes, spiritually fatigued. We have jobs, families, studies, interests, and so on. It’s easy to often feel exhausted. But artworks like “Elijah in ...

Ukrainian artist Anzhelika Doliba distills the evocative beauty of historic places in her architectural silverpoint drawings. “The atmosphere ...

The Cathedral of Milan—the Duomo di Milano—is easily the city’s most imposing sight. Its construction began in 1386, ...

Sometimes, on the rare occasion I get a chance, I sit and ponder what it means to be ...

Noble statues “enrich the city in beauty, in meaning, and in purpose,” author Michael Curtis wrote in his ...

The story of the Sampo is told in the Finnish epic “Kalevala,” which was compiled from the poems ...

In the painting “Christ Blessing the Children,” earthly browns and pockets of red dominate the divinely touching scene ...

Many know Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai from his famous “Great Wave off Kanagawa” print. Yet Hokusai was “a ...

The pine and elm staircase winds upward as solid and grand as it is ornate. Under the handrail, ...

Wisconsin artist Rebecca Korth hopes to bring “levity and happiness into people’s lives” through her brightly colored paintings, ...

Dazzling in detail, color, and artistry, Ravenna's famous mosaics cover the walls and ceilings of basilicas, baptistries, chapels, ...

I often ask myself, “What does it mean to be a sincere, good, and patient person?” Despite the ...

There comes a moment in life in which we are made to reflect on who we are and ...

My family is very important to me. I really don’t know where I’d be without their constant love ...

At first glance, everything in the pastel painting “The Lavergne Family Breakfast” seems rather ordinary: A mother and ...

It’s hard to deny that there are consequences for our actions. The consequences of a person’s actions can ...

GREENWICH, London—Just as seamen looked to the heavens to navigate their sea voyages, visitors to the Painted Hall ...

“The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.” —Plato Plato’s words continue to echo ...

The artworld is awash with nontraditional art. Refreshingly, independent art scholar and critic Michelle Marder Kamhi offers us ...

If beauty were a gun it would be a Boss & Co.  London gun-maker Boss & Co. is ...

Like the paintings and sculptures of the Renaissance, the era’s books and their artisanal bindings uplifted man to ...

There's nothing quite like being up in the clouds. In June or July, California-based artist David Jenks often ...

It’s easy to be overwhelmed by beauty. A beautiful moment, person, or object can inspire a certain emotional ...

As a new dawn breaks in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, we walk, almost enveloped in ...

On July 13, nearly 100 contemporary representational paintings from around the world will be exhibited in the “14th ...

As an artist, I mostly post art-related content on my social media outlets. Lately, I’ve been reading the ...

A young German couple have finally been reunited, after spending generations apart.  Ariane van Suchtelen, curator at the ...