In 1606, Caravaggio killed a man in a street fight and spent the rest of his life on the run.
This is the story of Maria Callas, the legendary operatic soprano who wowed worldwide audiences in the 20th century.
Mark Rothko’s late paintings and color fields reveal the pursuit of transcendence, presence, and human emotion beyond language.
Nineteen-seventies New York City was on the edge of bankruptcy, its neighborhoods and infrastructure disintegrating, but artists embraced this urban decay in their work.
Dimitri Shostakovich lived a “double” compositional career—one that would satisfy the Communist Party and another where he composed what his heart really felt.
John Sloan, one of the famed Ashcan artists, depicted New York City at the turn of the 20th century without artifice or moralization.
Duccio di Buoninsegna was central to the establishment of the Sienese school, combining the finer aspects of Byzantine and Western European art.
Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico was the founder of the Metaphysical painting movement, which became an important precursor to Surrealist art.
