Beauty and Ugliness

Dürer was in Venice between the end of the summer of 1505 and the autumn of 1506, at which point he went to Bologna. He had already been in Venice as a young man in 1494 but the se...

"It's really terrible outdoors. The wind is whistling through the joints of the house and the snow is not snow but sharp needles that get into the corners of one's eyes… Just the r...

Fan ,'The Sleeping Beauty,' painted with watercolours on silk and with ivory sticks, designed and made by Phoebe Anna Traquair, Edinburgh, 1888. Fan painted with watercolours on si...

Gustave Moreau painted several versions of Polyphemus and Galathea, one of the Symbolists’ favourite myths, over the course of his artistic career. The scene recreates the theme of...