Miniature portraits, from one inch in diameter up to tennis ball sized, started getting popular among Europeans in the sixteenth century. If a husband was going traveling, both spouses would keep an ...
At Yale University Art Gallery, the artist designs a show blending fact and speculation about the lives of Black Americans whose stories have largely been lost. Mickalene Thomas designed “Portrait of ...
Even while museums are closed, art matters in our lives. In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a ...
NEW LONDON, Conn. — In the early days of the United States, miniature painters Mary Way and Elizabeth Way Champlain of New London were rare birds. Professional women painters were already few and far ...
Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Most weekdays, Ruth A. Williams works patiently with the elderly clients she serves as a home-care ...
SOME readers of Mr. Strachey’s books no doubt find their enjoyment flecked by the clamor of ‘O Master! Master!’ arising from the reviewers. Mr. Strachey is diverting enough; he has read widely in the ...
The painting measures less than 15 inches tall and just over 5 inches wide. The verso of the panel includes part of a Marian prayer. Sotheby's New York A tiny portrait of Mary Magdalene by Raphael has ...
Last year, a regional auction house in England sold a matchbox-sized painting of a man thought to be Sir Walter Raleigh. But that identification wasn’t quite right, according to the savvy art dealer ...
Size matters, especially in the world of pop culture art. Collectors can only buy and display so many full size movie posters before running out of wall space. And once that happens, their eyes may ...
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