
With its extreme contrasts of candlelight and shadow, the pure geometry of its forms, and meditative mood, this painting exemplifies Georges de La Tour’s 1(593—1652)...

With its extreme contrasts of candlelight and shadow, the pure geometry of its forms, and meditative mood, this painting exemplifies Georges de La Tour’s 1(593—1652)...

A muscular young man with a strong profile, who looks fully destined to kill a giant and to reign as Israel's king, this David is no innocent boy with a slingshot....

Nicolaes Maes (1634—1693) was a Dutch painter known for his genre scenes, portraits, religious compositions and the occasional still life. A pupil of Rembrandt in...

This is a copy of a portrait by Anthony van Dyck of Lady Dorothy Sidney, daughter of Robert, 2nd Earl of Leicester. In about 1635, Lady Dorothy Sydney rejected a...

Queen Anne (1665—1714) was the last of the Stuart dynasty to occupy the British throne. Shown here aged eighteen, seductively dressed and posed in a sumptuous interior,...

The landscape painter Thomas Cole (1801—1848) was born in northern England at the start of the Industrial Revolution, immigrated to the United States in his youth, and...