The author looks at the defining features and similarities of work by Hieronymus Bosch, Max Beckmann and William Kentridge ...

After God shuts them in, the flood begins, with rain for 40 days and 40 nights. This is the first time the Bible will introduce the significance of the number 40 — including the 40-day flood, 40 years ...

Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s masterpiece captures the folly of humanity’s desire to reach heaven on its own terms.

While this winter’s premier auctions for Old Master works at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in New York yielded better results year ...

Painting of Vishnu on the serpent ... rejuvenation with modern health innovations 19th Swedish embroidery depicting Adam, Eve and the snake in the Garden of EdenImage: picture alliance/Heritage ...

With the announcement of this year’s Oscar nominations, the members of the Academy have, in effect, responded to the natural and political disasters of the moment in the name of solidarity. A ...

During their heyday, the Marcoses commissioned a number of paintings depicting Ferdinand and Imelda as Malakas at Maganda. After their fall from power, they became Adam and Eve again, with ...

Donna Tartt’s “The Goldfinch,” another novel about another Dutch painting from the same period, hanging in the same museum, the Maurithuis in The Hague, won ...

An image depicting a famous 19th-century painting of Cossacks ... Putin delivered an upbeat and vague New Year’s Eve message that did not address casualties in Ukraine or rising inflation ...

Found beneath an older tomb near Tarquinia, the painted chamber depicts several intricate scenes, including a metallurgical ...