A painting can reveal the price of a pigment, the ambitions of a patron or the overlooked life of a model. This collection brings artists and materials into conversation, from Renaissance rivalries and French realism to contemporary figurative painting.
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Juan van der Hamen painted in the Madrid of Velázquez, finding subjects in sweets, glass vessels, flowers and the faces of court society. A signed still life, two portraits and…
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Through water, steam, glass and foliage, American realist painter Alyssa Monks turns photographic precision into an exploration of intimacy, grief and everything that resists a…
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For centuries, Europe’s most prized blue came chiefly from lapis lazuli mined in Badakhshan. At times, the finest ultramarine cost more than gold and was reserved for the most…
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For roughly three years, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael were active in Renaissance Rome at the same time. They were not friends: admiration, influence, rivalry, and…
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More than a face on a canvas, Júlia Peraire shaped Ramon Casas’s art—over a hundred portraits tracing desire, modernity, and the making of a muse.
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Antoine, Louis, and Mathieu Le Nain painted peasants with a gravity once reserved for kings—quiet scenes that forever altered French art.
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Louise Camille Fenne’s paintings bridge classical technique and contemporary emotion, redefining figurative art for the 21st century.
