In order to make large portraits of European elites, artists had to literally piece together pieces of paper, circumventing the limitations of their medium. LOS ANGELES — Eighteenth-century portraits ...

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Nicholas Hall will present an exceptional exhibition opening in October, Hub of the World: Art in 18th Century Rome, organized in association with the Milanese Galleria Carlo Orsi. Presented at the ...

Bay Area writer and art historian Bridget Quinn is back with a rare, historical banquet brimming with rich and juicy stories about women artists. Quinn, whose book "She Votes" documented women's ...

Then there’s the relationship between the characters themselves. The central figure, a clown character alternatively referred to as Pierrot or Gilles—hence the two titles—is thought to have been based ...

Francesco Solimena's 18th-century painting "Phaethon asking to drive the chariot of Apollo" is part of the Carnegie Museum of Art's new exhibit "Fault Lines." Check out a new exhibit at the Carnegie ...

One lucky antiques enthusiast was in for the shock of a lifetime when they last went dumpster diving. Rifling through the trash in Hudson, New York last year, they chanced upon a discarded pen and ink ...