Baroque paintings expose or reference their materiality by insisting on various physical changes wrought through violence. This study approaches violence as the work of materiality, which has the ...
An art collector in Spain has been left stunned by the botched restoration of a copy of a painting by Baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. The Valencia-based private collector paid €1,200 ...
(According to Pliny the Elder, the ancient painter Zeuxis demonstrated his acumen by painting grapes so realistic that birds tried to eat them.) Curtains often appear in Baroque and Cubist ...
It is something of an Italian Renaissance trope that during the 15th and 16th centuries, painting rose in social and intellectual status, ranking itself alongside the art of poetry. Less known is ...
A portrait by baroque painter Caravaggio held in a private collection since it was discovered more than 60 years ago is being shown to the public for the first time in a museum in Rome.