European painting is part of an ongoing project to ... leafing his way through a book as if just nailing down some anatomical or ornithological fact in an encyclopedia. Nearby is an engaging ...

the fruit of the villainous plundering of jewels of European art.” In the center of the book, along with black-and-white images of Carinhall at the height of Göring’s power, there are three ...

Bruegel stepped out of Europe’s medieval past and into modernity. And this book, by shining a laser on the 50 years during which Bruegel developed genre painting, lets readers peek into the ...

Ways of Seeing could be described as an “anti-art book”. Apart from a coloured cover ... it is understandable that he inclined towards Europe, and from the early 1960s lived in Geneva and ...

To renovate the galleries where it displays European paintings from the 1300s to the ... He is the author of two books and was the editor of “The New York Times Book of New York.” ...

Susan Ronald’s new book, Hitler’s Art Thief: Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis and the Looting of Europe’s Treasures, tells the back story of what may be the most startling art-world bust in ...

Compared to the valuable paintings stolen ... cultural landscape of Europe. As I began reading Anders Rydell’s account of the Nazis’ concerted effort to destroy book collections on Judaism ...

In many European history and art books, oil painting is said to have started in the 15th century in Europe. But the team that used the ESRF, an intense source of X rays, found the Bamiyan ...

So why did his paintings of the dingo and kangaroo — some of the earliest European representations of Australian animals — look so strange? Stubbs had not travelled with the 1768 Endeavour ...

The first big European art show since 2023's "Art ... the quintessential early Christian saint holding a crucifix, with books, a skull, and an hourglass before him – all in the artist’s ...