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Step into 14th-century Siena and discover how artists broke from tradition and pioneered new ways of storytelling. Don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime celebration marking the rise of Western painting.

Step into 14th-century Siena and discover how artists broke from tradition and pioneered new ways of storytelling. Don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime celebration marking the rise of Western painting.

The Christ Child looks up at the Virgin Mary, raising the index finger of his right hand as though he is preaching, which refers to his divine authority. The Virgin’s cloak would have originally ...

The 17th century was the era of the Baroque, a style bringing passion, colour and drama to painting, sculpture, architecture ...

Harmen Evertsz. Steenwyck was born in Delft, where he mainly worked. He and his brother Pieter were taught by their uncle, David Bailly, in Leiden. Bailly is often credited with the invention of the ...

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Elizabeth C. Childs explores Gauguin's time in the South Seas and the impact the region had on his portraits Gauguin’s motivations for travelling to Tahiti to pursue his artistic career were many.

Image: Detail from Anon, Portrait of Renoir Musée Marmottan, Paris © akg-images Renoir's work seems always to be about pleasurable occasions, and reveals no great ...

The papers were collected by Hugh Courts while he was acting as solicitor to Kempton Bunton for the theft of Goya's Duke of Wellington portrait. They mainly cover the two years from when he was ...

Vincent Van Gogh’s career as an artist spanned barely ten years. Before he took up painting at 27, he was a preacher, before ...