Following the release of the US president-elect's official portrait, an expert reveals how scouring the pages of art history can help decode its meaning.

Something The Mona Lisa, David, and The School of Athens all have in common is they represent a way of thinking that was shaping and being shaped by the visual arts of that period. From the 14th ...

Now, four years later, one of those works has been returned: A Rocky Coast, With Soldiers Studying a Plan, a 17th-century landscape ... Born in 1615, Rosa was an Italian Baroque painter and ...

“It’s a sculpture that was in an Italian family ... of sculpture as an art form.” The director adds that “many Dutch sculptors travelled to Rome in the 17th century, studied Bernini ...

“A Cabinet of Wonders: A Celebration of Art in Nature” even reconstructs a 17th-century Wunderkammer ... as well as Japanese globes and Italian wax plant and fruit models.

The closest echo in art history for such a fiercely furrowed, lock-eyed, and, yes, trumpant glare is an out-of-the-way portrait from the paintbrush of the 17th-Century Italian Baroque artist ...