Carved in the round, the reverse only partially worked. With older polychromy. Depicting the Virgin standing on a flat plinth holding the Christ Child, who stands on a pedestal decorated with angels.

For museums and their public, Impressionism is the Goldilocks movement: not too old or too new, not too challenging or too ...

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Such stout figurines were particularly popular in Southern Germany ... by the 18th-century French painter Hubert Robert alludes to this custom of ornamental living. The art historian Joseph ...

Sebastian Smee delivered the Art History keynote at the Boston Book Festival, speaking on impressionism and its broader ...

Writers have since revamped his “Beggar’s Opera” to lampoon Weimar Germany (words ... his photographs of 18th-century marble busts from the Yale Center for British Art, which commissioned ...

While visitors will find evocative Impressionist paintings of women ... to “The Connected Bedroom.” Whether an 18th-century daybed or a present-day photo of artist Zanele Muholi gazing at ...

With walls lined with works from Titian, Rembrandt and Rubens, the museum is home to one of the world’s largest collections of 14th- to 18th-century ... art nouveau, impressionism and modernism ...

In a 2008 article that sowed the seeds for her book, Stuart termed suicide by proxy as one of “the unintended consequences of public executions in 18th-century Germany.” As the child killings ...

The line of VIPs waiting to enter Art ... century works at prices that make sense” is an “easy decision” for collectors to make. The priciest work for sale at the fair was Suprematism, 18th ...

Imagine the terror of awakening in a confined, pitch-black underground space slowly suffocating to death 6ft under while trapped in your own coffin. You can't see ...

A recent exhibit highlights the use of scent for science communication by enlivening subjects that might otherwise seem heady ...