After turning Charles VII's head in the 1440s, Agnès Sorel became his mistress and close advisor as well the era's great ...
Having lived in both Bombay and New York, I learned the art of hustle ... frequently, Byzantine architecture and aesthetics naturally became a part of my visual language. Madonna was on repeat ...
Drawing heavily from antiquity, the Byzantine contribution to education and higher learning is immense, despite often being overlooked.
ANTWERP, Belgium — When an iconic painting is in need of restoration, it is usually taken to a studio to be worked on in ...
Ancient Greek Vase Depicting Mother Aphrodite Disciplining Her Unruly Child With a Sandal Awes Researchers The interesting ...
Black Madonna is a term used to describe images of the Virgin Mary and the Infant Jesus depicted with dark skin. The Black ...
Why is art, craft and design education so vital to our culture, our society, our economy and ourselves? The reasons are myriad, meaningful, complex and fiscal says Lesley Butterworth of the National ...
In one of its most ambitious recent exhibitions, the Louvre in Paris looks at how the depiction of the fool—and by extension the perception of madness—has evolved from the Middle Ages to the 19th ...