The San Domenico Museum in Forlì, Italy, is hosting a monumental exhibition, “Pre-Raphaelites: Modern Renaissance.” The show brings together 360 works of art, borrowed from major European, American, ...

A salamandra (a genus of seven species of salamanders localized in central and southern Europe, Northern Africa, and western Asia) engulfed in flames undulates, seemingly unperturbed, and turns its ...

It has become fashionable to say that painters are returning to realism. Such talk is almost always accompanied by skeptical remarks about difficult or obscure art and observations on the bankruptcy ...

The year was 1347. The Bubonic Plague was sweeping through Europe, creating mass panic and bringing many to believe the world as they knew it was ending. Some, seeing the plague as a curse from God ...

THE French nation has led the world in many movements tending to establish exalted ideals and to uplift mankind ; but at no time in its history have its aims and efforts been more noble or more ...

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"Much of the material here presented in revised and amplified form was first privately printed by the Design Workshop as [the author's] Critical appreciation course ...