From the malignant Iago to the murderous Clytemnestra, most literary figures feel personal passion. Trump’s anger seems more ...
Many varieties of ancient Greek healing herbs grow on "Asclepius Path," Mount Kerketion, where god of medicine, Asclepius, ...
Created around 1503, the painting—which just sold at auction for $3.1 million—depicts the saint after the crucifixion of ...
The Romanian government has long sought dozens of valuable paintings that it says the country’s last king took into exile in ...
One of the most written-about Renaissance artists, da Vinci may also be among the most poorly understood.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art devotes an enthralling exhibition to the German Romantic painter, who rendered the natural ...
"Microscopic observations of the craqueleure of the painting allowed us to document the stratigraphy of the canvas and to ...
The Soul of Nature ,” the Met’s new retrospective of nearly 40 of Friedrich’s paintings and more than 30 of his drawings, marks the 250th year since the artist’s birth in 1774. Much of Friedrich’s ...