A lavish floral still life by Emily Minton Redfield takes cues from iconic works by 16th- and 17th-century Dutch painters. All photos by Emily Minton Redfield The Local newsletter is your free, daily ...
AMSTERDAM—Few images say "Dutch" to an art-history student as loudly as that of potatoes in still life. The genre that golden-age Dutch painters propelled to a finer art form and Impressionist ...
It was a grand time, but the party’s over. The guests are gone. The servants will clean up later. In this silent room, all that remains are the leftovers, and some luxurious tableware. When you visit ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Pliny the Elder wrote that the ancient Greek painter Zeuxis painted grapes so realistically that birds came to peck at them. In similar fashion, visitors to the Cleveland Museum of ...
If you’ve ever seen the work of Lisa Frank, you’ve likely found yourself mesmerized by the way the artist manipulates photographs of nature into complex, detailed, often-repeating patterns. Frank’s ...
From Heather Mac Donald’s speech at the New Criterion’s April 24 gala: Consider a recent exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The show featured the Met’s extraordinary collection of paintings ...
A richly depicted wicker basket of flowers by Dutch artist Clara Peeters going on offer at Sotheby’s London on December 6 will, if it meets its high estimate, become one of her priciest paintings at ...