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Isaac Levitan, founder of the genre of the “mood landscape,” is one of the greatest artists of Russia.  He was born in a ...
He grew up with a toy castle and wondered as an adult what would happen if he blew one up to a scale that he could walk ...
The composer’s brother Modest long wanted to collaborate. They eventually got their chance, to bring Pushkin to the opera ...
A painting by Marlene Dumas going up for auction this month at Christie’s New York will likely break the record for the highest price ever paid at auction for a work by a living woman artist.
A huge painting by Mark Rothko, thought to be worth tens of millions of dollars, has been removed from display in a Dutch museum after it was damaged by a visiting child. Conservators will now ...
“Shishkin painted this,” she says, referring to the famous painting “Morning in a Pine Forest” by Ivan Shishkin and Konstantin Savitsky. One can see the similarities, but in the reproduced ...
Stroll through the second-floor galleries of London’s Wallace Collection and you’ll arrive at the Canaletto Room, named for the dozen or so expansive paintings by the 18th-century Venetian artist.
“Northern Lights,” now open at the Beyeler Foundation, features 74 landscape paintings by Scandinavian and Canadian artists, all made between 1888 and 1937. View from Pyynikki Ridge, Helmi ...
A Minnesota garage sale led researchers to discover that a $50 painting was made by the famed Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh. According to CNN, the painting was acquired by an antique collector in ...
This was Anna Boberg’s account of painting in Norway’s Lofoten Islands ... Bright white trunks entice you deep into Ivan Shishkin’s vast charcoal forest “Wind Fallen Trees” (1888).