39.49 x 63.5 x 1.22 in. (100.3 x 161.3 x 3.1 cm.) ...

A decade after his brutal murder, Zdzisław Beksiński’s paintings hold the world spellbound. Is the universal fascination they evoke the result of their author’s own gruesome tragedies, or did ...

The idea of America has played a variety of roles in European consciousness. Early on, in the mid eighteenth century when America was only emerging, George Berkeley remarked while in New England that ...

It helps, of course, that many of the ... in part to distinguish Florence within the empire it served. So, the curious ciphers and clues in these paintings situate their subjects within a complex ...

This story appears in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. To appreciate a painting, we’re taught to look for color, composition, and light. But how can a painting be savored by ...

The city of Vijayanagara was systematically destroyed and plundered in the course of the next five months and is today mostly a ruin. The empire managed to survive until 1646, but much of it ...

It is impossible to eat a movie scene, but that has not stopped filmmakers from saluting food and cuisine over the years.

How come we can’t travel to Tilbury and board the Museum Ship Empire Windrush? Where is it? The short answer: it sank. The ...

Women stare out from their paintings, eyes perpetually sparkling ... Franz Kaka, whose first exhibition of her work was “Every Empire Has An End” in 2019, presented a solo booth of her works ...

The Bad Boy Records founder has been accused of mistreatment and abuse—and support for some of the allegations aired on ...

She also works with courses to create paintings that sell directly to people through her Instagram and her website, ...

Patience and planning are two words golfers at the highest level lean on when they play a golf course. For artists at the highest level, painting one isn’t much different. Aimee Smith has ...