Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Arcimboldo’s predominantly brown picture is an ingenious metaphor

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Rosa Bonheur

Throughout her life, Rosa Bonheur ceaselessly reviewed her childhood, attempting to compost a satisfactory image

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Painters of Light

As the Utrecht painters used light to heighten the effect of their paintings, so other Dutch

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The Derby Day by William Frith

Packed with action and color, William Frith’s seven-foot-four-inch panorama

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Painter’s Colic

To repair the ravages of painter’s colic, Whistler and Joe left for the south of France, planning to go

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8 Times… ~ John Singer Sargent

Being one of the best portrait artists of his time, Sargent in fact painted Isabella Stewart Gardner’s

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Teresa of Avila & Bernini

In January 1647, Bernini agreed to design and build a chapel for the eminent Cardinal Federico

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Annual Explosion of Rowdy

Much of the comic spirit of Bernini’s plays derives from the fact that many of them were written to

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Patria Potestas

Bernini, after his father died, had the power of the male head of the family–in legal terms in Rome-

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