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This classical subject tells the cautionary tale of the sculptor Perillus, who offered to make a bronze bull in which the tyrant Phalaris could roast his enemies. Perillus was rewarded by being the ...

This depiction of an enslaved man constituted a timely abolitionist appeal in the years leading up to the British Emancipation Act of 1833. The subject raises his head and eyes toward the heavens, ...

This vessel, used to consume a chocolate drink, depicts a key event in a royal Maya accession ceremony, which shows the relationship between human sacrifice and the assumption of power. The expectant ...

Honoré-Victorin Daumier Claude Bailliot, modeled c. 1832/35 (cast 1929/40) Honoré-Victorin Daumier Comte Horace-François Sébastiani, modeled c. 1832/35 (cast 1929/40) Honoré-Victorin Daumier Hippolyte ...

Bartholomaeus Bruyn, I, Bartholomaeus Bruyn, the elder, Bartolomaeus Brun, the elder, Bartholomaeus Bruin, the elder, Bartholomaeus Breun, the elder, Barthel Bruyn ...

In the late 18th century, the French Academy promoted a severely Classical approach to history painting as a means to regenerate art—and in contrast to the perceived decadence of the Rococo style.

Ian Gordon is a student and a writer, and he works in development at the Art Institute of Chicago.

In this altarpiece, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo conceived the traditional subject of the Virgin and Child with interceding saints as if the two figures have miraculously appeared on an altar in a ...