How did paintings by Tintoretto and other Venetian Renaissance artists get their special glow? Using an electron microscope, Barbara Berrie, senior conservation scientist at the National Gallery of ...

Tintoretto was the ultimate Venetian. Venice practically oozes the spirit of the artist, whose giant and somewhat manic artworks cover a substantial portion of the floating city’s most opulent ...

We philosophers believe that there is something called ‘art’, which has an essence. And so our goal is to offer a general definition, encompassing all art made anywhere anytime. Art historians have a ...

During the 1700s, when rococo ruled Europe, Venice had become its royal city. Carpaccio (1455-1525) had combined the bustle of Venetian business with Renaissance grandeur; Titian (1477-1576) and ...

Frank Duveneck's 1884 oil painting "Water Carriers, Venice" is featured in the "Sargent, Whistler and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano" exhibition at the Amon Carter Museum of ...

What’s the difference between the national pavilions and the curated exhibitions? Is the American pavilion legit? What’s up with the Chanel dinner? All those questions and more answered.

One wintry night in 1699, in a rain-lashed Venetian tavern, a young artist named Marco Ricci killed a gondolier who had slighted his paintings. Had it not been for this murder, argue some Italian ...

Art Tiepolo, Once Dubbed the Greatest Painter in Venice, Gets a Retrospective For Tiepolo: The Best Painter of Venice, the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart has gathered together much of the artist’s finest ...

Stroll through the second-floor galleries of London’s Wallace Collection and you’ll arrive at the Canaletto Room, named for the dozen or so expansive paintings by the 18th-century Venetian artist. Now ...