Art, as a mirror of society, evolves dynamically over time . Movements, or ldquo;isms rdquo;, influence one another through reactions, innovations, and reinterpretations .
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 sublime in art, it has often been suggested, starts with Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry (1757). Before this, so the conventional narrative goes, the sublime was a notion that applied only to ...