Jacques-Louis David’s mythological painting of the farewell of the young lovers Telemachus and Eucharis was created during the artist’s last years, when the return of the monarchy to France forced him ...

Unframed: 127.3 × 163.5 cm (50 1/8 × 64 3/8 in.)Framed [Outer Dim]: 163.8 × 199.4 × 14 cm (64 1/2 × 78 1/2 × 5 1/2 in.) This information comes from the Museum's collection database, and in some cases ...

Released from his prison of incrustation, having rested on the ocean floor for thousands of years, the bronze statue of an athlete stands in a quietly arrogant pose, having just placed an olive ...

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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Haarlem’s thriving art community made the city an important center of artistic activity, second only to Amsterdam in influence. Inventories from this ...

Anne T. Woollett and Ariane van Suchtelen; with contributions by Tiarna Doherty, Mark Leonard, and Jørgen Wadum At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the ...

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Saint Paul was painted by an unknown French artist in about 1520–1530. This work of art lives at the Getty Center. Find out if it's on view. Can you imagine a world without any colors in it? What ...

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The nude—the unclothed or partially clothed human body—has been featured in European art for millennia. After 1400, with the waning of the Middle Ages, artists depicted nudes as increasingly ...

In 1828 a young architect, Heinrich Hübsch, published a polemical study in which he suggested that the rapid technological progress of the early nineteenth century, combined with changed living habits ...

The sculptor Adriaen de Vries (1556-1626) spent much of his life working for the most discerning royal courts of the age, including that of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. A master of ...