Miniature portraits, from one inch in diameter up to tennis ball sized, started getting popular among Europeans in the sixteenth century. If a husband was going traveling, both spouses would keep an ...

The painting measures less than 15 inches tall and just over 5 inches wide. The verso of the panel includes part of a Marian prayer. Sotheby's New York A tiny portrait of Mary Magdalene by Raphael has ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Most weekdays, Ruth A. Williams works patiently with the elderly clients she serves as a home-care ...

The 16th-century portrait, once attributed to Bronzino and owned by Horace Walpole, hadn't been seen for 200 years. Lavinia Fontana, Portrait of a noblewoman (ca. 1580-90). Collection of Nick Cox ...

Even while museums are closed, art matters in our lives. In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a ...

SOME readers of Mr. Strachey’s books no doubt find their enjoyment flecked by the clamor of ‘O Master! Master!’ arising from the reviewers. Mr. Strachey is diverting enough; he has read widely in the ...

Size matters, especially in the world of pop culture art. Collectors can only buy and display so many full size movie posters before running out of wall space. And once that happens, their eyes may ...

Sometimes an artist is so talented, the line between art and reality can become blurred. Ashton Gallagher is one of those artists, and his latest exhibit just opened up. Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles ...

Alexander the Great's 1,800-year-old miniature bronze portrait has been discovered by the metal detectorists on an island in Denmark. While undertaking survey work in a field west of Ringsted, a city ...

Miniature painting is ‘a thing apart from all other painting and drawing’ in showing ‘those lovely graces, witty smilings, and those stolen glances which suddenly like lightning pass’. So said ...