The Art Institute’s wide-ranging collection is a testament to thousands of years of human creativity and artistic ...

Rufino met a sympathetic soul in the artist and fellow Escuela Nacional student María Izquierdo.

Antoine Louis Barye The Vagrant (Le rodeur ou le ramasseur de bouts cigares), c. 1832/35 Style of Honoré Victorin Daumier André-Marie-Jean-Jacques Dupin, Aîné, Modeled c. 1832/35, cast 1929/30 ...

CHICAGO—The Art Institute of Chicago is pleased to announce Jeremy Frey: Woven on view from October 26, 2024 through February 10, 2025. The exhibition is a mid-career retrospective of the work of ...

Combining painting, sculpture, and carpentry, this unique object was created collaboratively by Paul Gauguin and his younger contemporary Émile Bernard. Their artistic experiments, often undertaken in ...

During her short life, Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907) radically charted her own path, exploring the singular aspects of the feminine experience in a bold style that foreshadowed Expressionism. Her ...

Since 2019, Giovanni Verri has been a conservation scientist in the Department of Conservation and Science. He holds a PhD in physics from the University of Ferrara, Italy, and MA in conservation of ...

For this depiction of Peter denying that he is a follower of Jesus (seen under arrest in the background at right), Utrecht artist Hendrick ter Brugghen embraced the strong contrast of light and shadow ...

The Art Institute uses a security screening and weapon-detection system at all entrances. The system uses low-frequency (ELF) radio waves—in the range used by the anti-theft systems many retail stores ...

Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault Sheet of Caricatures, 1818/19 Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault Studies of a Woman and a Soldier, 1818/19 Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault Sketch of Farm ...

Mangbetu and Zande sculptors created a range of utilitarian objects decorated with elements of human anatomy. This lidded box features the head of a woman with a typical halo-shaped hairstyle atop a ...

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