Every ten years, Wright paints his own portrait. It is like a visual journal, contemplating his changing face and thoughts.
Every ten years, Wright paints his own portrait. It is like a visual journal, contemplating his changing face and thoughts.
Mystery girl. Before she was identified as Lucrezia Borgia, this painting was called Portrait of a youth as nobody knew who the sitter was.
Mystery girl. Before she was identified as Lucrezia Borgia, this painting was called Portrait of a youth as nobody knew who the sitter was.
A major international exhibition featuring two of the most significant artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries – Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei – opens at the National Gallery of…
This major international exhibition features two of the most significant artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei
A self-portrait is a self-assertion of some kind; how does the artist want us to perceive him?
A self-portrait is a self-assertion of some kind; how does the artist want us to perceive him?
He is so enamoured by her beauty that John Rous commissions a life-size portrait of his new wife – whose descendants reside in Victor
He is so enamoured by her beauty that John Rous commissions a life-size portrait of his new wife – whose descendants reside in Victor
Originally considered a Rembrandt self-portrait, we now wonder: who was the real mystery painter behind this portrait of the older master?
Originally considered a Rembrandt self-portrait, we now wonder: who was the real mystery painter behind this portrait of the older master?
Through costumes and a stylised Italianate landscape, this marriage portrait boasts the couples’ wealth and social standin
Through costumes and a stylised Italianate landscape, this marriage portrait boasts the couples’ wealth and social standin
Meet the Wares: friends and siblings from Tasmania’s Spring Creek, in a portrait hopeful of a harmonious futur
Meet the Wares: friends and siblings from Tasmania’s Spring Creek, in a portrait hopeful of a harmonious futur
By the 1640s the Amsterdam art scene was under the spell of Rembrandt, who had moved there from his home town of Leiden in 1632.
By the 1640s the Amsterdam art scene was under the spell of Rembrandt, who had moved there from his home town of Leiden in 1632.
Amid the growing wealth of the Dutch middle classes, the gezin (nuclear family), comprising parents and children bound by feelings of affection, was considered the building block of a strong…
Amid the growing wealth of the Dutch middle classes, the gezin (nuclear family), comprising parents and children bound by feelings of affection, was considered the building block of a strong…
The Flemish artist Jean François van Dael started out painting portraits, decorative and religious subjects, but his career changed direction when he met the flower painter Gerard van Spaendonck in…
The Flemish artist Jean François van Dael started out painting portraits, decorative and religious subjects, but his career changed direction when he met the flower painter Gerard van Spaendonck in…
This meticulously rendered eighteenth-century view shows the Zuidsingel, a tree-lined canal in Amersfoort, Utrecht.
This meticulously rendered eighteenth-century view shows the Zuidsingel, a tree-lined canal in Amersfoort, Utrecht.
In seventeenth-century Dutch portraits of women, virtue is often signalled by the presence of a devotional book.
In seventeenth-century Dutch portraits of women, virtue is often signalled by the presence of a devotional book.
In 1622 Rubens travelled to Paris to undertake a series of tapestry designs for Marie de’ Medici, mother of Louis XII
In 1622 Rubens travelled to Paris to undertake a series of tapestry designs for Marie de’ Medici, mother of Louis XII