Coming in several modalities, touch is taken for granted, and least used in the arts. Paintings of and about touch are spectacular and ingenious, but there is ample scope for more.
Rembrandt
Dancers, fauns, and the inevitable femmes fatales dominated his paintings before the outbreak of war.
Looking and sniffing at one of the toughest non-visual theme for paintings. Can any go beyond mere allegory and ev0ke the sensation?
Less than 30 lines of the book are devoted to the abduction of Europa, which has become its best-known and most-often painted story.
Greek painted pots, a pair of gold earrings, and a rude quiver: how they led a beer advertisement into danger.
Berlin, the vibrant city of modern arts, brought love and marriage – and a brief reprise of Salome too.
When he was in Munich, he did much more than just drink lots of red wine and champagne. Here are his experimental paintings from the period.
The visual tradition of a stairway to heaven appears quite recent. I propose that Blake was its originator.
How Sargent’s portrait of a young New York bride turned into a provocative account of The New Woman.
A summary chronology of the major milestones in the history of oil painting, with copious illustrations from the masters.
