A beautiful thing happened this week in our city: a supernova of memes immortalizing the archetype of the "Northeast Philly dude," the one true dawg who lives everywhere in our midst. It all began ...

Wer ist dieses aristokratische Mädchen, dessen Bild in der Berliner Gemäldegalerie hängt? Niemand kennt ihren Namen. Versuche, ihre Identität herauszufinden, gab es viele. Dennoch bleibt das „Bildnis ...

“Portrait of a Young Girl” (c. 1470) is a small, seemingly simple picture, measuring less than 9 inches by 11.5 inches. Painted in oil on oak by Petrus Christus (c. 1410-1475/76) in a cool, muted ...

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On “The Charterhouse of Bruges: Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, and Jan Vos,” at The Frick Collection in New York. Among the many pleasures afforded by The Frick Collection are the small and focused ...

Let the light in. Five years after the Metropolitan Museum of Art set off on a major renovation of its galleries for European painting, the superprime real estate at the top of its grand staircase is ...

NEXT WAVE: Petrus Christus (died c. 1475) of Brugge was a second-generation artist. Like Bonnard after Monet, or Frankenthaler after Pollock, he was thought to be good, not quite great. Yet since he ...