Light Sculpture Without Light

During the 1960s, Flavin shared with other proponents of Minimalism an analytical approach to art that rejected all associative or evocative forms. In each piece of this period, th...

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...

During the 1870s, on returning from his lengthy tour of Europe and the Near East, Church supervised the construction of Olana, a grand neo-Persian-style mansion where he would spen...

Pen and ink drawing of a sculpture of Indrani from Jajpur in Orissa, by an anonymous artist, taken from an album of 37 drawings (43 folios) of sculpture at Jajpur, Puri, Bezwada an...

In the field of French art, both academic and avant-garde, the 1880s were an unusually turbulent decade. The last official state-sponsored Salon, an institution that had been in ex...

Jan Evangelista Purkyně also written Johann Evangelist Purkinje) (1787 –1869) was a Czech anatomist and physiologist. He was one of the best known scientists of his time. In 1839, ...

Moonlit Landscape with a Road beside a Canal appeared on the Cologne art market in 1914. One year later it was recorded in the Berlin collection of Otto Held and was auctioned with...