Ever wonder how artists work through an idea to complete a finished canvas? The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts recently acquired a Baroque-era drawing that helps illustrate how the artistic ...

I’m excited to share with all of you, on this day after Christmas, a beautiful drawing that has just entered the collection as part of a generous year-end donation of 36 European and American drawings ...

Baroque art typically brings to mind rosy-thighed cherubs, zaftig goddesses and gilt. Not anymore--in Vienna. In the Austrian capital's recently reopened Kunsthalle, an exhibit space for contemporary ...

I’m excited to share with all of you, on this day after Christmas, a beautiful drawing that has just entered the collection as part of a generous year-end donation of 36 European and American drawings ...

In the wake of the Council of Trent, as the Church of the Counter-Reformation era was striving to shape new cultural movements able to massively revive popular faith, the city of Rome was turned into ...

As I turned my gaze from one red chalk drawing to another at Drawn to Drawings, the newest exhibition at the Art Institute, I was surprised to find someone talking to me. The sparse lighting and ...

Ovals, spirals, opulent materials, heroic gestures: what does the modern spirit know of these essential elements of Baroque art? Inveterate individualists, we cannot see pomp and grandeur as a way of ...

Part 1: Introduction -- What is drawing? -- Part 2 : The History of drawing -- From cave paintings to the Renaissance : 15,000 B.C. -- A.D. 1400 -- The Renaissance in Italy : 1300-1600 -- Baroque ...

A rarely seen work by the great Italian artist Caravaggio (1571–1610), the master of chiaroscuro who helped usher the Renaissance into the Baroque period, is coming to Florida for an exhibition at the ...

I’m excited to share with all of you, on this day after Christmas, a beautiful drawing that has just entered the collection as part of a generous year-end donation of 36 European and American drawings ...