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A fresh new perspective on British landscape drawing in the Victorian and Modern erasThe attempts by artists of the Victorian and early Modern period to convey not merely the physical properties of a landscape but also its emotional and spiritual impact landscape as places of the mind', as the (...)

Cloisonne , the art of applying enamel to objects, dates back to the early Byzantine Empire. It then spread rapidly to China, Southeast Asia, Russia, and eventually the whole of the European continent. It is in Japan, however, that the technique was perfected. One of the world's leading collections (...)

Polidoro da Caravaggio (c. 1500 1543), one of Raphael's most influential and distinctive followers, has not been well treated by time. His significant early frescoes, which graced exterior palace facades in Rome, have perished almost without exception. A rare few are preserved but most are known (...)

Pettibon is known for his characteristically youthful aesthetic and sharply satirical critique of American culture. Though drenched in cynicism, his work empathizes with the dizzying madness of our own humanity as it engages both so-called high and low culture. Perhaps most poetic of the many (...)

Attraverso una scelta mirata di opere, la mostra intende offrire un quadro completo dell'arte della scultura in bronzo nel capoluogo toscano soprattutto al tempo degli ultimi granduchi di casa Medici. Partendo da una selezione di opere significative del Giambologna, della sua scuola e dei maestri (...)

Dopo la stagione dei grandi pittori del Rinascimento, il prestigio delle arti figurative cresce come mai prima nella storia. Nel corso del Cinquecento l'artista passa dall'essere un comune artigiano a ricoprire uno status pari a quello dei maggiori intellettuali del suo tempo. L'inscindibile (...)