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.
No two painters treated The Last Supper the same way, and each version argues something different about faith, guilt, and human nature.
A machine gunner turned painter filled room-sized canvases with jewel-toned visions of war, until a 2003 article pulled him from obscurity.
Painters used the tiger to represent conquest, luxury, terror, and protection, each one building a version suited entirely to their own purpose.
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