Born in Seville, in 1599, Diego Velázquez would become one of the greatest painters of the Baroque era. A contemporary of artists such as Peter Paul Rubens and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, he rose from ...
The 17th century was the era of the Baroque, a style bringing passion, colour and drama to painting, sculpture, architecture ...
It is the eyes peering from the canvases that get him, their gaze piercing the boundary between art and life. That is why ...
a mirror reflecting King Phillip IV and his queen — and also Velazquez, stepping back from his canvas and looking straight ...
The Museo del Prado’s thematic routes are intended to encourage a new way of looking at the Museum. To achieve this, the Prado requests the collaboration of professionals from outside the institution ...
That’s why acclaimed Irish novelist John Banville prefers to visit Spain’s Prado Museum during its opening hours — even though he’s been invited to browse anytime as part of a month-long literary ...
The New York Hispanic Society announced Thursday that they have acquired ten new works, including an allegorical portrait of the painter Francisco Goya by Eugenio Lucas Velazquez. In March 2020, the ...
"Earthy Paradise," a radiant new exhibition at Van Doren Waxter in New York, shines a light on the life and legacy of ...
Toussaint L’Ouverture & Jacob Lawrence is developed by the fall 2024 class of The Curatorial Project taught by Professor ...
Saturday's celebration of Indigenous artists will feature artwork, a traditional jingle dress dancer and frybread tacos.
The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, which features thousands of Medieval, Renaissance, Greek, Roman and Cypriot antiquities and works of art, is the main attraction on The Ringling museum campus.