How it came to be part of the DIA’s collection is also a wonderful story. After all, curators don’t just shop for artwork, especially when a piece can cost anywhere from $200,000 to $200 ...

Click the FOLLOW button to be the first to know about this artist's upcoming lots, sold lots, exhibitions and articles The Portuguese School, 16th Century comprised a group of artists active in this ...

A 16th-century man or woman might want to swim for ... and by this meanes adding longer date vnto the life of man, well then may this Art of Swimming come within the number of other Sciences ...

Costamagna thought he saw something else—something strangely familiar—in the 16th-century painting ... one of the first professional female artists. Claude Thériez / Musée de la Chartreuse ...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Inside the Allentown Art Museum hangs a 16th-century painting, with a history perhaps finally settled. "Is it going to be hard to say goodbye," I asked museum CEO Max Weintraub.

The tlamatlquiticitl—midwife—offered those in her charge a remarkable 16th-century birthing plan, combining practical care, drugs for pain relief, and religious ceremonies. This story appears ...

At first glance, the 16th-century register found in the Cambridge University Library might not seem the most remarkable of objects. Its brittle pages simply held handwritten records of property ...