Many very strange symbols appear in Albrecht Dürer’s famous engraving Melencolia I. Among them is a magic constant 34, a well-known and enigmatic example.

An exquisite diptych which links Albrecht Dürer and Christian Ethiopia ... very different styles of European and Ethiopian Christian art. It is uncertain when the engraving was made and joined ...

In this he was a lot like the painter Francis Bacon, who died in 1992, the year that Lynch’s “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me” ...

While this winter’s premier auctions for Old Master works at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in New York yielded better results year ...

Laurent Binet’s Renaissance epistolary novel blends the postmodern playfulness of Umberto Eco with the vigour of Dashiell ...

Perched on a hilltop in the heart of Malta, the ancient walled city of Mdina offers a breathtaking glimpse into the island ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art devotes an enthralling exhibition to the German Romantic painter, who rendered the natural ...

the Frist Art Museum offers an ever-changing set of exhibitions, covering everything from paintings to sculptures to photography. Past exhibits have featured European armor, works of Albrecht ...

The woodcut is one of the oldest printing techniques known and reached its zenith during the Middle Ages with Albrecht Dürer. Over the centuries the technique was increasingly forgotten, only to be ...

From Albrecht Dürer’s Knight, Death and the Devil (1513), through 17th century Dutch still-lifes with their wilting flowers, to the art of the AIDS activist group Act Up in the 1980s and 1990, and ...