What can molecular biology majors learn from Manet? Can Cézanne change the way English graduate students and undergraduate engineers approach their fields? While students in both courses examined ...

An art history professor in Westchester, New York, has discovered a rare Italian Baroque painting at a local church. Iona College professor Tom Ruggio did a “double take” when he first saw the work at ...

In the 1930s and ‘40s, the self-taught Vermont artist Hazel Knapp painted from a wheelchair with the assistance of her mother ...

Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, recently dismissed Erika López Prater, an adjunct faculty member, for showing two historical Islamic paintings of the Prophet Muhammad in her global survey ...

One of the most common human gestures, the pointing finger, appears frequently in Old Master paintings as a guiding cue.

Back in September 1873, the New York Herald announced that the Hudson River School painter Jasper Francis Cropsey had a new painting. Autumn in the Ramapo Valley, Erie Railway, which would be open to ...

“Angels Over Manhattan,” 2001-2 (oil on canvas), by Grace Hartigan “Ingres’ Bath,” 1993 (oil on canvas), by Grace Hartigan Grace Hartigan has been “painting art history” throughout her long career. ..

In 1568, the Italian historian Giorgio Vasari published a biography on the Venetian painter Giorgione in which he complains that his subject “thought of nothing save making figures according to his ...

From the Mona Lisa to the American Gothic, these famous paintings don’t just grace museum walls; they offer a glimpse into the past and define entire generations. Although most of these masterpieces ...

Art historians often begin with a close focus on an individual artifact before setting that object into a history. Earlier, later, latest: that’s the basic historical structure. Giotto was studied by ...

Enshroud yourself in a sea of undulating azure, lapis, and cerulean blue hues that summon solace and energy. The gleaming canvas draws the viewer into a powerful narrative on the frailty of human life ...