Rufino met a sympathetic soul in the artist and fellow Escuela Nacional student María Izquierdo.

This is one of six paintings illustrating scenes from the life of Saint John the Baptist, a prophet considered a forerunner of Jesus. They were originally part of a group of 12 that possibly formed ...

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The Art Institute’s wide-ranging collection is a testament to thousands of years of human creativity and artistic expression—from ancient Chinese bronzes to contemporary art and from tapestries to ...

In 1981 Albright began a series of drawn and painted self-portraits at the invitation of the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, which for four centuries has collected other significant examples of this ...

This picture was taken of a television showing the famous Nixon-Kennedy presidential debates of 1960. The debates, the first ever to be broadcast on television, introduced a new and singularly ...

Moses Striking Water from the Rock, n.d.