Your favourite kiss in art? Perhaps it's Gustav Klimt's. The clinch is close. The couple are enveloped and almost demate-rialising under the mass of gold-ornamented fabric. But it's true that their ...

The war in Iran underscores what was already evident: Trump goes on instinct, and his instinct is to dominate others. The attempt to sacralize military action in Iran as ordained by God provides an ...

Madonna and Child, about 1320 - 1330 by Giotto di Bondone (Image courtesy National Gallery of Art; Washington; Samuel H. Kress Collection) The first thing you should know about the glorious new show ...

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THE COPY of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua that is being exhibited at the Bratislava castle shows beauty of this, Giotto di Bondone's most important work.The copy is a 1:4 ratio scale model that makes ...

The people he painted were beautiful even though his own children were ugly. That’s what Giotto’s contemporaries said about him. A Nativity scene that the Italian artist created for the Scrovegni ...

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