Natasha H. Arora

His Pioneering Works Depict Black subjects in the Tradition of European Old Masters

The popular imagination often dismisses Byzantium’s aesthetic as a static, even regressive contrast to classical technique. Sumptuous and flattened, Byzantine…

A visual history of Zoroastrianism—allegedly humanity’s oldest monotheistic religion—materializes only to the most determined eyes. Buried under millennia of…

Considering Holi and Diwali’s spectacularity, and a growing number of

Portraits intend to be reflections of their subjects’ character, placing William Orpen’s