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 ...

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 ...

Obsessed with volume, Balenciaga’s work was couture for the mondaine, and seems well placed to remain exactly that almost ...

Singer-songwriter Bob Gaudio of The Four Seasons is 83. Movie director Martin Scorsese is 82. Actor Lauren Hutton is 81. Actor-director Danny DeVito is 80. “Saturday Night Live” producer Lorne ...

Opened in 1819 at the encouragement of Queen Maria Isabel de Braganza (King Ferdinand ... and Flemish styles of art. Among the most famous works featured include Velazquez's "Las Meninas ...

Disruption and Devotion exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston offers visitors an immersive journey through Dalí’s ...

The show is situated in the museum’s enchanting terra-cotta arcade, which gives the displayed objects—red velvet pillows, ...

Samantha Harvey’s Orbital has won the 2024 Booker prize. What it so skilfully and ambitiously exposes is the human cost of ...

Adrian King, Aubrey Knight, Lilianna Knight, Riley Lawrence, Alexandra Major, Sarah “Rex” Nance, Allie Perry, Grayson Sharp, ...

The painting’s complex composition has been said to create a unique illusion of reality where it is unclear who the subject ...

Show at the King's Gallery features an 'enormous cache' of works by the likes of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael ...