3. Detail of Hendrick Avercamp, 'A Scene on the Ice near a Town', about 1615 ...

Alternating strips of light and dark green paint show sunlight playing on the trees late one summer afternoon. The view has been cropped at the top to give the painting an impression of depth, despite ...

'The Triumph of Art' by artist Jeremy Deller is a nationwide performance that marks how festivals are part and parcel of art, culture and civic life, and that art and artists can be catalysts of ...

3. Detail of Hendrick Avercamp, 'A Scene on the Ice near a Town', about 1615 ...

This painting stood above the altar in a chapel built to commemorate a local carpenter, Giovanni di Matteo di Giorgio Schiavone, in the church of Santa Maria dei Servi in Perugia. Giovanni left ...

The artist shows John the Baptist leaving the city for the wilderness, where he lived a simple life preaching about Jesus Christ. We see his dainty figure twice in this scene, which is unusual in ...

Why are Gauguin’s portraits so important? Gauguin gives us something new; he innovates, experimenting with colour, likeness, and composition. He isn’t interested in the social status of his subjects, ...

This imaginary landscape in the flatlands of the Low Countries conjures a remarkably effective illusion of a vast panorama opening up before us. Koninck has used two particular techniques to create ...

A mountain top shrouded in mist, a bubbling torrent of water tumbling headlong down a rocky hillside, a lone tree piercing the clouds – this was one of the favourite themes of the great Dutch ...

Find out why sunflowers represented happiness for Van Gogh. Learn how he experimented with colour to capture mood and express identity. The Sunflowers is one of the most popular paintings in the ...