An exceptionally rare 17th-century painting featuring a Black woman and ... One, published in 1663, is Francis Hawkins’s translation of a French conduct guide titled Youths Behaviour, or Decency ...
The closest echo in art history for such a fiercely furrowed, lock-eyed, and, yes, trumpant glare is an out-of-the-way portrait from the paintbrush of the 17th-Century Italian Baroque artist ...
The Night Watch, formally known as “Militia Company of District II Under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq,” is a massive painting of the civic guard, charged with preventing attacks on ...