A small museum in northern France has announced the surprise discovery of a new masterpiece by Lavinia Fontana, one of the most celebrated woman painters of the Italian Renaissance. The lost work had been languishing in storage for over
The Silk Roads witnessed various political movements shaping and transforming the arts the period. It is notably the case with the presence of the Mongols in the Iranian plateau and Central Asian regions. Contrary to common beliefs, the arrival
It’s everywhere: fake news, deep fakes, identity fraud. So ensnared are we in a culture of digitised deceptions, a phenomenon increasingly augmented by artificial intelligence, it would be easy to think that deceit itself is a high-tech invention of
Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennium ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, they hitched a ride along the Silk Road. A team of Chinese researchers has conducted a genomic
Tethered to a wooden stake, the horse in this painting appears wild-eyed and animated, its head raised with flaring nostrils and an open mouth as if it is emitting a shrill neigh. A leading court painter named Han Gan
This is the most magnificent drawing by Michelangelo in the United States. A male studio assistant posed for the anatomical study, which was preparatory for the Libyan Sibyl, one of the female seers frescoed on the ceiling of the
While preparing to fresco the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling, Italian artist Michelangelo created hundreds—possibly thousands—of small sketches to work out the design. He destroyed many of those preliminary drawings—which were never intended for public view—before his death in 1564. Less
Do you ever walk past the windows of Tiffany’s or Armani just to drool over what’s behind those windows? Well, unless you’ve got $30 million burning a whole in your pocket and you want to spend it on books,
A song from the 14th century, the author of which is the composer and poet Guillaume de Machaut, a representative of the ars nova style, and the secretary of the Czech King John of Luxembourg. Lyrics: Je vivroie liement
