[Trip to Brittany]

The taste for Oriental and exotic themes had spread across France during the 18th century and became more pronounced with the advent of Romanticism. Delacroix was influenced by thi...

Antonello da Messina, who according to Vasari learned the technique of oil painting directly from Van Eyck during a trip to Flanders, was the most important artist of the Sicilian ...

I've brough this brooch, which was my nanny's brooch. I grew up in the United States, in a tight-knit Irish American community in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. All the branches of my...

Emile Bernard was a precocious, well-educated, intense sixteen-year-old when he entered the studio of the academic painter Fernand Cormon at Paris’s Ecole National des Beaux-Arts, ...