A year ago this month, when it was still closed to the public because of the pandemic, the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) took a major step toward interrogating a controversial 18th-century group ...

PORTRAITS OF GABRIEL DE RICARD SEIGNEUR DE LASSERRE AND HIS WIFE. 18th-century French school. Capitoul and lawyer; owner of Château de Lasserre in 1762, his son Louis was mayor of Montastruc. These ...

The dissolution of her collection will reveal whether the haute billionaire appetite for such ornate fare still holds sway in ...

The artist’s enigmatic painting straddles two shows at the Hispanic Society in New York that span fashion and politics ...

A portrait of a kneeling nobleman, Mughal India, circa 1700, Opaque pigments and pencil heightened with gold on paper, the bearded gentleman depicted with his hands placed upon his knees, wearing a ...

When director Céline Sciamma envisioned the sea-wind swept Brittany that defines the setting and atmosphere of “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” she imagined something quite different than what she got.

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 ...

Fall 2021 is shaping up to be Kehinde Wiley’s season in Los Angeles. The Huntington has commissioned the artist to create a response to the most popular work in its art museum collection, Thomas ...

MACKINAW CITY, MI – A pair of late-18th Century portraits depicting a former Fort Michilimackinac commander and his wife have made their way to Michigan. Mackinac State Historic Parks announced ...

Russian researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of RAS, and Russia's famed Tretyakov Gallery have conducted a ...