Hans Memling based this Annunciation on Rogier van der Weyden's altarpiece, then swapped the kneeling Virgin for one collapsing into two angels' arms.
Impressionism reshaped how painters worked and what they chose to paint, from broken brushwork to the rise of modern, everyday subjects.
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A look at the surviving Vermeer paintings and the discourse of attribution, from his early history scenes to the quiet interiors that closed out his career.
A seemingly simple piece of cloth is one of art history's great symbols, depicted over time in iconography, weddings, romance, and more.
Art history trends tend to highlight the same handful of movements, but these ten expand that picture with names well worth knowing.
Long before Albrecht Dürer painted another person, he painted himself. Here’s every self-portrait he made, ranked from least to most famous.
Papou's paintings at NSU Art Museum build a coded visual language from alligators, seagulls, cartons, and Greek myth into mystical, embodied art.
Gauguin called it the culmination of everything he had learned, painted at a feverish pace in Tahiti while he was mourning his daughter and drowning in debt.
Doctrine dictated how saints and sinners should be painted, but touch, a clasped hand, an embrace, became where real feeling slipped through.
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