Not everyone appreciates a good, old art masterpiece. Some might even go as far as calling it boring. It could be because they struggle to interpret the message behind the painting, or maybe they miss ...

By day, he rebuilt postwar Korea through scientific research, and by night, he translated Giorgio Vasari’s *Renaissance ...

The Scharf Collection, one of the most significant art collections in Germany, has gone on public display for the first time ...

Presented by Professor Suzannah Lipscomb. The researcher is Max Wintle, audio editor is Amy Haddow and the producer is Rob Weinberg. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff. All music courtesy of ...

In the new landscape of luxury, materiality has become a true marker of modernity. While craft was once thought of as an ...

But this vision of genius is a poor fit for many great artists, and it tends to obscure what makes them and their work ...

In honour of Pinktober, Renaissance Business Bay Hotel, Dubai, hosted ‘Canvas of Courage’ a group art exhibition that ...

Deeper meanings are to be found within the images themselves and the way they are painted.” His subject is the six scenes in the fresco Good and Bad Government by Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1290-1348), at ...

In Paris or New York, they might queue to see the French master’s work, but not here in the Vatican Museums in Rome, where ...

A major influence on Abstract Expressionists like Rothko, wherein emotional evocation trumped figuration, Angelico’s great gift was his ability to convey a sense of the divine. Centuries later, his ...

Pages from manuscripts are especially tempting to thieves because they can easily be removed from books, transported and sold as if they were small paintings.