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November 25, 2022In 1879, the twenty-three-year-old John Singer Sargent, having recently completed his studies at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, made his first trip to Spain as an...
October 13, 2022Among the most seductive objects to have come down to us from antiquity are the funerary portrait panels originally attached to mummies from the years when Egypt was part of the...
October 4, 2022Early in its history, the Museum of Modern Art embraced self-taught artists and African and Meso-American art almost as ardently as it did sophisticated vanguardists. What was...
April 12, 2022For centuries, artists and art circles were engaged by paragoni, debates over the comparative worth of different modes of artistic expression....
