Old Masters

Greek by birth, Spanish by choice, El Greco transcended place and time with his expressionistic flights of the spirit. Continue reading →

During the Italian Renaissance, artists indulged their love of architecture by building elaborate structures in paint. Continue reading →

Illuminated manuscripts combine the pleasures of art and literature. Continue reading →

The Santa Barbara Museum of Art presents a monographic show of the Romantic French master, centering on a recently attributed painting. Continue reading →

Dutch masters visit New York, giving a glimpse at the birth of modern artistic vision. Continue reading →

For George and Ilone Kremer, who have amassed a major trove of Dutch Golden Age paintings, collecting and learning are inseparably linked. Continue reading →

Spanish colonial art, long dismissed as derivative or politically incorrect, is receiving a major reappraisal in Latin America and drawing new attention in the U.S. Continue reading →

Before there was photography there was watercolor, a demanding medium that British artists mastered while documenting life and landscape at home and abroad. Featured Images: (Click to Enlarge) The most portable of paints created centuries of enduring views. Since the … Continue reading →

Piero della Francesca, who channeled mathematics into shapes and colors, gets his first one-man show in America. Continue reading →