Following in Nalanda’s footsteps, a central university is also being established at Vikramshila. What is the historical ...

Painter Joe Goode was instrumental in establishing the 1960s L.A. art scene — and challenged conventions along the way.

Grand portraiture is a minefield for some noteworthy hair. Portraitists such as Thomas Gainsborough and Anthony Van Dyck paid ...

As the recent Siena exhibition in New York so beautifully demonstrated, these artists helped redefine Western painting for centuries to come. None of these Sienese artists survived the Black Death.

The first time I stepped into Old Tarble, sunlight streamed through the windows, catching dust motes and making the studio feel alive: light, glowy, and ...

Anthony Carney explores the French triolet, an eight-line poetic form with repeating lines and a tight rhyme scheme.

The collection, which dates to the first century C.E., includes items ranging from elaborately decorated horse harnesses to ornate cauldrons ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt and the Sorbonne will fund a new program to digitize Delacroix’s papers and identify other artists who ...

MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed ...

Castiglione, who lived for many decades in China before his death, served during the reigns of three successive Qing emperors ...

Notably, a very faded painting of the crucifixion scene with Jesus on the cross was also uncovered, the image of his crown of ...

An auction of jewelry, silver, and objets d'art at London auctioneer Noonans will be led by a medieval ring worn by an ...