"The cultural and social significance of Black figures in 18th-century European art serves as a reminder of how deeply entangled visual culture was and remains with colonial ideology," said Iddrisu.

The middle value of all realized prices for an artist's works sold at auction during a given period, providing a clearer representation of typical market values by minimizing the influence of extreme ...

David Pullins, a curator of European painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, argues that 18th-century French art has too often been viewed through the lens of the Académie Royale de ...

A Treasury of Life: Indian Company Paintings, c. 1790 to 1835, an ongoing show in the Indian capital put together by DAG, an ...

Cochineal, a bright red dye derived from insects, helped make Oaxaca wealthy in the 18th century when European elites went ... doctor’s cabinet, a folk art barro betus dog pyramid stands guard ...

The newest round of acquisitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art includes “The Dutton Family ... Zoffany that places viewers inside a fancy 18th-century English drawing room where a card game ...

How did this mid-18th century drawing from ... first time that a valuable work of art has been rescued from the trash. The “Old Master, British and European Pictures” sale included more ...

A collection of rare 18th Century colonial paintings found in a museum storeroom is set to be put on display. Leicester Museum and Art ... the dominance of European powers while relegating ...

Giant paintings by Meleko Mokgosi cleverly use an 18th-century European history painting style ... These are just a few of nearly 100 works in “Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz ...