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 ...
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 ...
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 ...