Both titles reference the many declarations of the demise of painting, ever since the melodramatic French painter Hippolyte-Paul Delaroche first saw a daguerreotype in the early 19th century and ...

Masterpiece’ is a lexical term today, which connotes ‘a great work of Art of any genre’ in the world. At times in common practice, when presenting a work of Art, notwithstanding the absence of its ...

Joan of Arc is interrogated by the Cardinal of Winchester in her prison at the castle of Rouen, 1431 in an 1824 painting by Paul Delaroche. Her exhaustive character questioning was to determine ...

Built to impress and terrify, the Tower was first a fortress in the 1070s and then evolved into a prison for enemies of the crown, including Anne Boleyn, the Nine Days' Queen, and Guy Fawkes.

Collectibles A Trove of Napoleon Relics Commands $9.7 Million at Auction More than 100 of the emperor's effects including garments, paintings, and a bicorne hat were up for grabs at Sotheby's Paris.

Paul Delaroche's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 28 USD to 457,130 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1999 the record price ...

More than 100 objects connected to the French emperor just sold at auction. The collection sheds light on the man and the ...

Noemi Clymer Kurtz, who creates art as Noemi Salome, will open her exhibit “ Home to Me ” on Thursday, July 3, from 5 to 7 p.m. in the sanctuary gallery at the Church of the Incarnation in ...

Being no great friend of gracefulness, ‘The Most Powerful Man on Earth’, Is leaving civilized humans red-faced, With his ...

Paintings with ties to an infamous New Mexico couple have been returned to the museum they were stolen from 40 years ago. Last Friday, officials at the University of New Mexico’s Harwood Museum ...

Only a Carpathian would end up in a thrift store! Seemingly by random, on Ghostbusters day this past week (June 7, 2025), a reproduction of the famous painting of Vigo, the Scourge of Carpathia ...