I stumbled upon this ancient marble relief while poking around in the online collection of the Museum of Fine Art (Boston). They've cata...

The Long Trail , Chauncy Foster Ryder, 1934 A largely forgotten master landscape painter created this large oil on display at the Currier Mu...

Flowers in A Persian Porcelain Water Bowl, 186 1 John LaFarge had the kind of restless innovator's talent that drives someone from obse...

Dennis Miller Bunker, The Brook at Medfield , 1889 I once owned a children's book that turned any ordinary kitchen into a playground. Th...

Antonio de Coreggio was by all accounts an introverted character prone to fits of melancholy. A post-High Renaissance artist, he was born in...

Enigma, Gustave Dore Edgar Allen Poe's works have inspired hundreds of artists - the images arise unbidden as we read the stories and po...

Still-life with Peeled Lemon, Jan Davidsz. de HEEM What a harvest is here in this still-life painting by the Flemish Baroque-period painter ...