Maxwell L. Anderson, The Courtauld Collection Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism (1998)

"Buildings on right and left bank, church in distance, figures in foreground." [Wallis], Between 1984 and 1985, a research assistant, Dr. Brendan Cassidy, was employed by Nottingha...

Theo van Rysselberghe, the most famous fin-de-siècle interlocutor between French and Belgian Neo-Impressionism, was born in Ghent on November 23, 1862. Theo’s parents lived in bour...

1887.08.5172+5173. Function: For as long as we have known, people have come to Benares to be able to meet the gods, primarily Shiva, but also to die, be cremated and be released f...

1887.08.5172+5173. Function: For as long as we have known, people have come to Benares to be able to meet the gods, primarily Shiva, but also to die, be cremated and be released f...

Function: Forty-five theatre masks form a part of the Vanadis Collection, most of them are meant for the no-theatre. The no-theatre is counted as one of the oldest now living thea...

The work of Giacomo Ceruti was largely forgotten over the centuries and was only rediscovered from the 1920s onwards as a result of three exhibitions. The first, held in Florence i...

Armand Guillaumin was born in Paris in February 1841 to a family aspiring to secure a position amidst the lower tiers of the rapidly growing middle class. Soon after Armand’s birth...