IN JAN VAN EYCK’S masterpiece “The Arnolfini Portrait” (1434), the bride’s splendid green dress is lined with white fur: miniver, from the bellies of squirrels. A 15th-century fun fur ...

Georges Seurat's once-mocked painting Bathers at Asnières is both an "exquisite distillation of the very essence of summer" ...

1.In The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck, the mirror on the wall shows two additional people in the portrait, presumably standing behind the artist.