Demoted — from celebrated painter to unremarkable hack. That has been the fate, says Maria H. Loh, of Alessandro Varotari (1588-1649), an Italian artist known as Padovanino after Padova, or Padua, the ...

With thanks to the National Gallery, the Musée du Louvre, Madrid's Prado Gallery, Naples' Capodimonte Museum and Washington's National Gallery, and to mark the publication of Mark Hudson's major new ...

Some readers of this article will call it a fish tale, and I guess I would too. The fish in question is a black sea bass—Centropristis striata—and this is the tale of how that New World creature came ...

See how the Beauty looks. The high blush of her cheeks, the golden necklace swooping down over her low neckline, the warm puff of her thick fur sleeves. Her eyes, frank and confident yet also turning ...

You may remember the public appeals that helped save these splendid paintings for the nation and this is the first time they have been shown together since they left Titian's studio; but the ...

BOSTON - Like the afterglow from an exploding star eons ago, six monumental paintings by the artist known as Titian smolder with the primordial energy of ancient myths in a stunning exhibit at the ...

No, it wasn't Manet, with his "Luncheon on the Grass" in 1863, which is what we were taught in art-history class. It wasn't even, as many critics have said lately, J.M.W. Turner in England a ...

Three centuries later still, John Keats saw Titian`s painting at the British Institute, the predecessor of the National Gallery. Daunted by bereavement and ill-health, and sustained only by his ...

In 1994 there appeared one of the great cultural and intellectual histories of our time, “The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance.” Because its author, Sir John Hale, had suffered a stroke just ...

The graffiti adjustments of a Minneapolis Institute of Art billboard advertising the upcoming Titian show, before (inset) and after. (via LA Times, Culture Monster) A Minneapolis Institute of Arts ...