Born Maria Górska in Warsaw (1898), Tamara de Lempicka didn’t just paint the Roaring Twenties—she embodied them. A refugee of the Russian Revolution, she reinvented herself in Paris, becoming Art Deco ...

In 2020, a massive explosion rocked the port of Beirut in Lebanon. It killed more than 200 people and destroyed homes as far as six miles away. It also damaged a historic piece of art: a previously ...

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

The National Gallery has recently rehung its entire collection. Taking hundreds of paintings off the wall and replacing them ...

Mary Magdalene is one of the most intriguing figures in Christian history and has been portrayed in many different ways. Some ...

Mounted officers patrol the park, climbing the hill towards the entrance on Via Leone XIII, while their colleagues from the ...

A previously unknown work by famed 17th century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi, which survived the Beirut port blast ...

The dramatic life story of Artemisia Gentileschi easily captures the imagination. This may be why many of her most famous paintings—including Judith Slaying Holofernes and Jael and Sisera—are ...

During the trial, Artemisia was forced to undergo humiliating judicial torture. Artemisia Gentileschi, Jael and Sisera, 1620, Oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. Despite Artemisia’s ...

Much attention has been paid recently to the life of the Italian Baroque master, Artemisia Gentileschi—specifically, her rape, her torture with thumb screws while testifying during the trial of ...