Widely recognized as a symbol for love and affection, the heart shape has evolved over centuries.
French Art
In Édouard Manet’s Olympia, which is making its debut in the United States at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in "Manet/Degas," the artist inserts a black cat to represent what we cannot see, proving…
Bonheur put a year and a half into location-based preparatory sketching for "The Horse Fair" and pulled from a number of unique masterworks to find inspiration for the final product. Unsurprisingly,…
Freeman’s May 11 auction brings an important collection of artworks from a private New York family to market. The sixteen lots offered—almost all works on paper—present buyers with remarkable fresh-…
Following the restitution of Nicolas de Largillière’s 18th century masterwork Madame de Parabère or Portrait of a Lady as Pomona by the Dresden State Art Collections to the heirs of the renowned…
This will be the first-ever exhibition at The Met to explore the work of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ hand-drawn animation. It will examine Walt Disney’s personal fascination with European art and…
This self-portrait, exhibited in Paris in 1895, came with a caption from an unnamed male art critic noting that “this woman” often had critics assume the work had been painted by a man, because no…
