Baroque art

Two celebrated and connected artworks, “The Cardsharps” and “The Cheat With the Ace of Clubs,” provide a tantalizing view into their artistic creation.

Every year, The Met adorns a Christmas tree with celestial figures and installs a crèche surrounded by a ...

The enlightening exhibition “Guido Reni,” currently on view at the Prado Museum, is the first of its kind ...

Artists throughout the centuries have been inspired by St. Francis of Assisi. An early masterpiece by one of ...

If artists as brilliant as Michelangelo and artworks as definitive as his “David” are rare, the year marking ...

Except among some specialist art historians, Simone Peterzano is generally known only as the teacher of Caravaggio: the ...

By Liz Lev Long before blockbuster cinema delighted audiences, there was Gian Lorenzo Bernini. During his 65 years ...

Between the years of 1647 and 1652, Gian Lorenzo Bernini produced what is considered his greatest sculpture: “Ecstasy ...