In the second installment in our series on jewelry’s place in art history, we’re exploring jewelry collecting in the Renaissance, a time when jewels were considered as valuable to possess and display as painting and sculpture.
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The course of this global pandemic has left many feeling shattered and searching for distraction. Derived from two small Japanese words meaning golden and joining, kintsugi is fundamentally about ‘beautifully mending a broken thing.’
When we think of Leonardo da Vinci’s most notable works, it would be easy to assume the women behind the Mona Lisa or Lady with an Ermine were his muses. One may therefore be surprised to discover that his pupils, Gian Giacomo Caprotti and Francesco Melzi, have the honor of this distinguishment.
Summertime’s gardens have long inspired artists and botanists. Botanical illustration emerged around the time of Plato, more than 2,000 years ago. The medium launched not as a fine art, but as a record-keeping device and a teaching tool. At the time, botany and medicine essentially were one and the same.
If it’s true that the flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long, then Noah Davis is that flame. He arrived in Los Angeles at the age of 21, sold his first painting by the time he was 25, and 400 artworks later, was dead of cancer at 32.
Delmas Howe: The Lithographs, opens on Saturday, July 12, from 6 to 9 pm, at RioBravoFineArt, 110 North Broadway, Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. This show includes a complete inventory of Howe’s lithographs plus a limited number of some never-before exhibited sketches from the RioBravoFineArt archives. Although Howe’s lithographs are a lesser-known part of an oeuvre that is almost exclusively painted canvas, his lithographs include some of his most iconic images.
Since its 1996 debut, Pokémon has grown into a worldwide, pop-cultural phenomenon. For Japanese fans, however, Pokémon carries far more cultural significance due to its strong connection to the still widely practiced Shinto faith.
Can the visual arts capture movement in stillness? This slideshow traces the representation of dance, particularly of dancing groups, through western art history with special attention paid to the trope’s Grecian origins. Maenads, the female followers of Dionysus, and Nymphs, usually following Hermes or Pan, are among the most popular dancing Greek figures.
Agora Gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition of new works by artist Mark Schiff at Booth 219 during the Hamptons Fine Art Fair, taking place July 10–13, 2025 at the Southampton Fairgrounds. This marks an exciting opportunity for collectors and art enthusiasts to engage with Schiff’s dynamic paintings in a focused solo presentation that underscores the evolution and range of his practice.
After having the highest value-added tax (VAT) rate for art in the European Union, Italy has just reduced it to 5%, the new European low.
