The Scapegoat Being Sent out into the Wilderness Where Five Wild Beasts Are Waiting to Devour It, and Secondly the Sacrifice of an Ox

The painting shows a naked man with his head held high standing on a gilded sleigh drawn by four strong men, two pulling and two pushing. A one-eyed priest is shown in the centre o...

Visitors to Kew Gardens , Surrey , have something new to look at these days . They are the ten Queen's Beasts which have been carved in stone by Mr . James Woodford . It was he who...

Visitors to Kew Gardens , Surrey , have something new to look at these days . They are the ten Queen's Beasts which have been carved in stone by Mr . James Woodford . It was he who...

Polyxena, with whom Achilles fell in love, was the younger daughter of Priam and Hecuba, the king and queen of Troy. She was partly responsible for Achilles’ death, having promised...

The subject is unusual and disputed. In Sluijter-Seiffert’s study of the artist, it is simply referred to as “Landscape with Nymph” and it has also been called “Scene from the scap...

This double-sided panel painting is one wing of a large altarpiece. During Lent the wings would have been closed, concealing the brightly painted panels and displaying only the mon...

In the United States the dissemination of the writings of the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt in the mid-nineteenth century aroused a growing interest in South America, to...