Agnès Varda, Santiago de Cuba - Mother & 2 girls in front of painted wall, Santiago de Cuba (Cuba series) (1962-1963)

Renoir once quipped that had God not created the female breast, he might never have become an artist. Indeed, the full, womanly bosom figures prominently in Renoir's loving portray...

The nineteenth century witnessed the evolution of the nuclear family unit—father, mother, and children—into a nexus of bourgeois social life throughout Europe and North America. In...

As a young artist in Paris Monet he was particularly impressed with the work of Courbet and Manet. During the 1860s he painted large-scale, ambitious works in an effort to attain f...

From his earliest years as a painter, Monet’s art was rooted in the direct and prolonged analysis of nature. Throughout his career, he grappled with the task of developing techniqu...

Cane handle, porcelain, painted in underglaze blue, Saint-Cloud porcelain factory, France, about 1700-1750. Cane handle, porcelain, painted in underglaze blue. Plain bulbous knop, ...

Porcelain cane handle, painted in underglaze blue, made by Saint-Cloud porcelain factory, France, about 1700-1750. Porcelain cane handle with lobed bulbous knop, painted with forma...