Sofonisba Anguissola's 16th-century painting of a clergyman was known only through a black-and-white photo. However, the ...
The Louvre Museum has acquired a $26 million painting from the 13th century four years after the work of art was discovered hanging on the wall of an elderly woman’s kitchen in France. The Louvre ...
An exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, examines how women faced barriers to equality but often overcame them to contribute to the culture of the era. By Tanya Mohn This article is part of ...
It must have taken many hands to rush the Bolognese Mannerist artist Lavinia Fontana’s most ambitious extant painting, a nearly 10-foot-long canvas from 1599, out of a burning building during the ...
When it comes to Old Master works, many of us think immediately of art made by men—most often Caravaggio, Rembrandt or Vermeer. But there were women artists working in the Early Renaissance all the ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Consider Michelangelo’s famous “Creation of Adam,” Sandro Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” or Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper.” When you think of Western art’s grand visual narratives of ...
"Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America," New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 1987, fig. 20. "The Art of Archibald J. Motley, Jr.," Chicago, IL: Chicago ...