Finally, John’s birth and circumcision is itself described (1:57-80), crowned by Zechariah’s great canticle of joy, the ...

Next month, Armstrong opens a solo exhibition titled Subrosa at Unit London, borrowing from the Latin phrase “under the rose, ...

After a long-forgotten painting of Hercules and Omphale was punctured during the 2020 explosion in Beirut, it has been ...

Lost for over 150 years, one of JMW Turner’s earliest oil paintings is about to go on display at London’s Sotheby’s before being auctioned. Titled ‘The Rising Squall, Hot Wells, from St ...

The first oil painting ever exhibited by Turner is to be put up for auction after being lost for more 150 years. The Rising Squall features a dramatic view of a former hot spring and spa in ...

WHEN AN OIL painting is dried and finished, it is supposed to stay that way. Yet when Ida Bronken, an art conservator, began to prepare Jean-Paul Riopelle’s “Composition 1952” for display in ...

Van Eyck’s 1434 The Arnolfini Marriage Portrait took on the title as the world’s first masterpiece in oils, and the artist has been memorialized as the “father of oil painting.” But oil ...

Whether it is throughout summer, burning the midnight oil, or rising at 3.30am before work, crib makers from various walks of life are busy at their craft. From vulcaniser to crib maker ...

The small amount of climate-preserved correspondence from the time and ancient epitaphs paint a grim picture of how risky childbirth was, for mothers and infants alike, as detailed in Freidin’s ...

Five Christian women have held a nativity-themed climate change protest inside the National Gallery in London. The members of Christian Climate Action stood in front of a 15th-century Filippino Lippi ...

The works include, for example, an illuminated page from The Book of Hours (Paris, 1500); The Annunciation to Mary in oil on glass by an unknown 16th-century Italian painter; and The Announcing ...

The next painting on our journey of the nativity is Rogier Van der Weyden’s Adoration of the Magi. ... Oil painting was introduced in Northern Europe during the 15th century, this new medium allowed ...