Rembrandt van Rijn completed The Night Watch in 1642. Today, the painting is regarded as one of...
Art
This category gathers our writing on painting and the visual arts, from the Renaissance to the modern era. We look at artists, masterpieces and movements in their historical and social context, asking what images reveal about power, faith, fear and human experience.
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Goya and the Birth of Modern Art: Why Was He Ahead of His Time?
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Los Caprichos: How Goya Attacked Superstition and Social Hypocrisy
Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) stands among the most important artists in the history of European Baroque painting....
Who Was Telipinu? Telipinu was an important deity in the religious tradition of the Hittites and ancient Anatolia....
