The Dutch "old mistress" was renowned in her own lifetime. But since her death 275 years ago, her legacy has been largely forgotten ...

Her art is imbued with the play's sensibility: both mix gritty realism with a haunting spirituality. Though her paintings may depict ... memory of a zombielike old lady walking a young dog on ...

In addition to rediscovering the beauty buried within paintings, Sherman has restored frames as well. “Sometimes you have missing pieces on old frames ... who strove for realism in their ...

On view from October 13, 2023, through January 7, 2024, European Splendors: Old Master Paintings from the Kress ... late Medieval and Baroque periods as realism and individuality emerged from ...

“The effect of realism is crucial,” says the ... says the Fayum paintings may be equated with those of an old master—only they’re about 1,500 years older. Doxiadis has a similar view ...

At first blush, the realism of Thomas Eakins seems ... many little-known paintings, and a vast corpus of preliminary sketches and photographs. And the exhibition does that most old-fashioned—and most ...

Vox spoke to Matthew Averett, an art history professor at Creighton University, to find out why this trend toward intentionally old-looking ... Therefore, paintings of Jesus showed him with ...

She soon found out that such behaviour is unexpectedly common in oil-based paintings. There are pockmarks in the red roofs of Vermeer’s “View of Delft” and surprisingly rough surfaces in the ...

Hidden underneath, the surprised workers found several centuries-old paintings. The forgotten wall art was likely added to the convent during a renovation in the 16th century or later before being ...

Now, some years after picking up the brush anew, Bertha Lunzer's paintings will now be presented at a special exhibit in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. "My grandma joined the art classes and realized ...