Art details

Although I am used to looking at contemporary art -- which often broadcasts its messages with great immediacy -- I found myself slowing down and scanning the 15-century works on view in their entirety, hoping for more subtle moments.

Detail: Herodias, 1843, by Paul Delaroche.

Detail : Seven Works of Mercy. 1606-07. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Italian 1571-1610. oil/canvas. http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

Told you my degree would come in handy, Mom.

"It is Spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems."—Rainer Maria Rilke. Book lovers and lovers of spring will enjoy seeing these 17 stunning works of art that celebrate springtime reading.

Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi — one of fewer than 20 extant paintings accepted as from the artist’s own hand

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CLOELIA "Illustrious" | clel ee aCloelia means “famous”, “illustrious”, “praised”, from Latin cluere, which means "to have fame/renown/to be praised". In Roman myth, Cloelia was pseudo-historical Roman heroine, famed for escaping from Etruscan king Lars Porsena by swimming across the Tiber.