As the recent Siena exhibition in New York so beautifully demonstrated, these artists helped redefine Western painting for centuries to come. None of these Sienese artists survived the Black Death.

A painting hanging in a French family’s living room turned out to be far more valuable than just another trinket or heirloom.

A show at the Louvre expands our understanding of the Florentine father of Western painting, who brought a revelatory naturalism and narrative sense to his work in the 13th century.

Susan Polk Van Dusen, of Sherwood, recently announced the publication of "Our Friend The Cowboy: A Wild West Hero," the second installment in her "Art and Verse" series of children's picture books ...

Is repeatedly saying Black people exist and deserve to be a part of the Western art canon enough? Is creating spaces for white audiences to have mediated encounters with Black bodies sufficient?

1240-1302), the Florentine artist often called the father of Western painting. A mere two decades after his death, Dante praised him in “Purgatory.” Two centuries later, Giorgio Vasari pronoun ...