The Italian painter Titian (ca. 1488-1576) was a great master of religious art, a portraitist in demand all over Europe, and the creator of mythological compositions which for inventiveness and decora...
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Question 1 of 10:What was unique about
George I of Great Britain, who became king in 1714?He never visited
Britain
He was openly gayHe ruled for just a week
He spoke no English
Question 2 of 10:...
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On Monday, Aug. 6, Debra Messing hosted a cocktail party for the Israeli jewelry designer Eli Halili’s new nature-inspired line at Donna Karan’s Urban Zen store on...
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A lawyer's $15.7 million fee for negotiating the return of art stolen by the Nazis was too high, a Dutch court ruled Friday.Lawyer Roelof van Holthe tot Echten submitted the multimillion-dollar bil...
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The U.S. heirs to a major collection of art looted by the Nazis and finally returned after years of legal wrangling have sold four paintings back to the Dutch government for $4 million and donated ...
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It was the mighty Kenneth Tynan who said that among the things he could live without in the theater are Everyman characters with pretentious names like “Mr. Adam” or “Mr. Zero....
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Architect Daniel Libeskind has upstaged the Rockies with his new wing of the Denver Art Museum, as jagged as the nearby peaks that inspired it.
New condominiums facing the museum sold...
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Artists who think big and don't hesitate to let the world know about their ambitions are often a trial to their contemporaries and a conundrum to posterity. The demands they make on their own gifts...
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The finest bit of painting featured in Veronese’s Allegories: Virtue, Love and Exploration in Renaissance Venice, an exhibition devoted to Paolo Veronese on display at the Frick Collection, i...
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The finest bit of painting featured in Veronese’s Allegories: Virtue, Love and Exploration in Renaissance Venice, an exhibition devoted to Paolo Veronese on display at the Frick Collection, i...
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The décor suffers from multiple-personality disorder. The dining rooms, on two levels connected by archways, are as visually jumbled as a dream. At the entrance, an enormous black Murano glass...
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Titian
A Quiz on the 18th Century
