This painting, possibly a fresco, portrays an extremely lively scene depicting brilliance at its best. A young woman, seated in a chair,...

Storage Jar (Pelike), anonymous artist, Athens, Greece, ca. 510-500 B.C.E., terracotta paired with a textured black paint, Art Institute,...

There are many prominent pieces housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, spread across numerous centuries. Despite this, there is one...

There have been many prominent site excavations of Pompeii since its destruction in A.D. 79. The House of Venus in the Shell was...

The early Renaissance period, developing from the end of the 14th century to the end of the 15th century, opened the door to vital...

Like many other early inventions and developments, the ancient Egyptians passed their artistic techniques to other cultures around the...

The Thames below Westminster, Claude Monet, oil on canvas, 18.5 by 28.7 in., 1871, National Gallery, London. The period known as...

Self-Portrait at the Age of 63, Rembrandt, oil on canvas, 33.9 by 27.8 inches, Netherlands ca. 1669, National Gallery, London. Rembrandt...

Sandro Botticelli, Venus and Mars, tempera and oil on poplar, Italy ca. 1485, National Gallery, London. The cultures derived from...

The Ambassadors, Hans Holbein the Younger, oil on oak, Switzerland ca. 1533, National Gallery, London. The Renaissance period saw...

The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, Giovanni di Paolo, tempera on panel, Italy ca. 1455-1460, Art Institute, Chicago. Saint John...

The Old Market Woman, anonymous sculptor, A.D. 14-68, Roman copy of an original Greek piece, The Metropolitan Museum, New York. When...

Many villas, particularly from the ancient Roman civilization have survived, either in fragments or whole, into the modern world....

The Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome and Dominic, Filippino Lippi, oil and tempera on poplar, Italy ca. 1485, National Gallery, London....

Art is everywhere at all times. It is in the home you live in and the school you learn. It is all around you! Though it is surrounding...

Artwork changed as time progressed through the Middle Ages and beyond. Historically, Europe suffered from the damage left by the Dark...

The Middle Ages, also known as the Dark Ages, describes the time between the fifth and fourteenth centuries. This epoch is considered...

The aesthetic value of the many art forms differs. Whether the aesthetic value of architecture meets the value of painting will be...

Georges Seurat, Bathers at Asnieres, oil on canvas, France ca. 1884, The National Gallery, London. Georges Seurat was an extremely...

“Often the confidence of the patient in his physician does more for the cure of his disease than the physician with all his remedies,”...